willing to see the affray from the proper angle in exchange for
protection from prosecution.

After breakfast Durand went to the Tombs, where Clay had been
transferred at daybreak.

"You needn't bring the fellow here," he told the warden. "I'll go
right to his cage and see him. I wantta have a talk with him."




CHAPTER XXXII

MR. LINDSAY RECEIVES

Between two guards Clay climbed the iron steps to an upper tier of
cages at the Tombs. He was put into a cell which held two beds, one
above the other, as in the cabin of an ocean liner. By the side of the
bunks was a narrow space just long enough for a man to take two steps
in the same direction.

An unshaven head was lifted in the lower bunk to see why the sleep of
its owner was being disturbed.

"I've brought you a cell mate, Shiny," explained one of the guards.
"You want to be civil to him. He's just croaked a friend of yours."

"For de love o' Gawd. Who did he croak?"