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And

yet

all

was

not

silence

in

solitary

.

Early

in

my

confinement

I

used

to

hear

,

at

irregular

intervals

,

faint

,

low

tappings

.

From

farther

away

I

also

heard

fainter

and

lower

tappings

.

Continually

these

tappings

were

interrupted

by

the

snarling

of

the

guard

.

On

occasion

,

when

the

tapping

went

on

too

persistently

,

extra

guards

were

summoned

,

and

I

knew

by

the

sounds

that

men

were

being

strait-jacketed

.

The

matter

was

easy

of

explanation

.

I

had

known

,

as

every

prisoner

in

San

Quentin

knew

,

that

the

two

men

in

solitary

were

Ed

Morrell

and

Jake

Oppenheimer

.

And

I

knew

that

these

were

the

two

men

who

tapped

knuckle-talk

to

each

other

and

were

punished

for

so

doing

.

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That

the

code

they

used

was

simple

I

had

not

the

slightest

doubt

,

yet

I

devoted

many

hours

to

a

vain

effort

to

work

it

out

.

Heaven

knows

--

it

had

to

be

simple

,

yet

I

could

not

make

head

nor

tail

of

it

.

And

simple

it

proved

to

be

,

when

I

learned

it

;

and

simplest

of

all

proved

the

trick

they

employed

which

had

so

baffled

me

.

Not

only

each

day

did

they

change

the

point

in

the

alphabet

where

the

code

initialled

,

but

they

changed

it

every

conversation

,

and

,

often

,

in

the

midst

of

a

conversation

.

Thus

,

there

came

a

day

when

I

caught

the

code

at

the

right

initial

,

listened

to

two

clear

sentences

of

conversation

,

and

,

the

next

time

they

talked

,

failed

to

understand

a

word

.

But

that

first

time

!

"

Say

--

Ed

--

what

--

would

--

you

--

give

--

right

--

now

--

for

--

brown

--

papers

--

and

--

a

--

sack

--

of

--

Bull

--

Durham

!

"

asked

the

one

who

tapped

from

farther

away

.

I

nearly

cried

out

in

my

joy

.

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Here

was

communication

!

Here

was

companionship

!

I

listened

eagerly

,

and

the

nearer

tapping

,

which

I

guessed

must

be

Ed

Morrell

's

,

replied

:

"

I

--

would

--

do

--

twenty

--

hours

--

strait

--

in

--

the

--

jacket

--

for

--

a

--

five

--

cent

--

sack

--

"

Then

came

the

snarling

interruption

of

the

guard

:

"

Cut

that

out

,

Morrell

!

"

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