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I
shall
tell
what
happened
the
other
way
around
,
for
it
was
only
after
a
weary
period
that
I
learned
.
This
Cecil
Winwood
,
in
order
to
curry
favour
with
the
Captain
of
the
Yard
,
and
thence
the
Warden
,
the
Prison
Directors
,
the
Board
of
Pardons
,
and
the
Governor
of
California
,
framed
up
a
prison-break
.
Now
note
three
things
:
(
a
)
Cecil
Winwood
was
so
detested
by
his
fellow-convicts
that
they
would
not
have
permitted
him
to
bet
an
ounce
of
Bull
Durham
on
a
bed-bug
race
--
and
bed-bug
racing
was
a
great
sport
with
the
convicts
;
(
b
)
I
was
the
dog
that
had
been
given
a
bad
name
:
(
c
)
for
his
frame-up
,
Cecil
Winwood
needed
the
dogs
with
bad
names
,
the
lifetimers
,
the
desperate
ones
,
the
incorrigibles
.
But
the
lifers
detested
Cecil
Winwood
,
and
,
when
he
approached
them
with
his
plan
of
a
wholesale
prison-break
,
they
laughed
at
him
and
turned
away
with
curses
for
the
stool
that
he
was
.
But
he
fooled
them
in
the
end
,
forty
of
the
bitterest-wise
ones
in
the
pen
.
He
approached
them
again
and
again
.
He
told
of
his
power
in
the
prison
by
virtue
of
his
being
trusty
in
the
Warden
's
office
,
and
because
of
the
fact
that
he
had
the
run
of
the
dispensary
.
"
Show
me
,
"
said
Long
Bill
Hodge
,
a
mountaineer
doing
life
for
train
robbery
,
and
whose
whole
soul
for
years
had
been
bent
on
escaping
in
order
to
kill
the
companion
in
robbery
who
had
turned
state
's
evidence
on
him
.
Cecil
Winwood
accepted
the
test
.
He
claimed
that
he
could
dope
the
guards
the
night
of
the
break
.
"
Talk
is
cheap
,
"
said
Long
Bill
Hodge
.
"
What
we
want
is
the
goods
.
Dope
one
of
the
guards
to-night
.
There
's
Barnum
.
He
's
no
good
.
He
beat
up
that
crazy
Chink
yesterday
in
Bughouse
Alley
--
when
he
was
off
duty
,
too
.
He
's
on
the
night
watch
.
Dope
him
to-night
an
'
make
him
lose
his
job
.
Show
me
,
and
we
'll
talk
business
with
you
.
"
All
this
Long
Bill
told
me
in
the
dungeons
afterward
.
Cecil
Winwood
demurred
against
the
immediacy
of
the
demonstration
.
He
claimed
that
he
must
have
time
in
which
to
steal
the
dope
from
the
dispensary
.
They
gave
him
the
time
,
and
a
week
later
he
announced
that
he
was
ready
.
Forty
hard-bitten
lifers
waited
for
the
guard
Barnum
to
go
to
sleep
on
his
shift
.
And
Barnum
did
.
He
was
found
asleep
,
and
he
was
discharged
for
sleeping
on
duty
.
Of
course
,
that
convinced
the
lifers
.
But
there
was
the
Captain
of
the
Yard
to
convince
.
To
him
,
daily
,
Cecil
Winwood
was
reporting
the
progress
of
the
break
--
all
fancied
and
fabricated
in
his
own
imagination
.
The
Captain
of
the
Yard
demanded
to
be
shown
.
Winwood
showed
him
,
and
the
full
details
of
the
showing
I
did
not
learn
until
a
year
afterward
,
so
slowly
do
the
secrets
of
prison
intrigue
leak
out
.
Winwood
said
that
the
forty
men
in
the
break
,
in
whose
confidence
he
was
,
had
already
such
power
in
the
Prison
that
they
were
about
to
begin
smuggling
in
automatic
pistols
by
means
of
the
guards
they
had
bought
up
.
