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Silently we follow Capone to m small ool] in whieh are tro bunks. There is oo ether cocupant. The cell is located on the fourth range = - that is, three tiers of celle above the floor. The rengeman pulls a lever et the far end of the line of cells, and we hear the banging of iron doors and shrill grating of locks, Capone is now really a captive, All the machine guns in Chicago, he reflects, eould not effect his release. Seeningly lest and apparently D1, he drops dejectedly to tha over-etuffed straw mattress, It is ten inches thick, hard and uncomfortable. He loars his hoad back aveinst the cold sheet of iron separating hiz from the adjoining cell. His eyes close as his fingera prayerfully clasp in hia lap. Whet next? he wonders. He makes a futile attempt to sleep, but the unusual treatment re has experienced has completely disturbed his system. He believes, though without concentration, a hypodermic might produce relisf. He has hardly rosigned himself to his position when the rangenan coces along and places a slip on the eoll door, Capone reaches up, casually exerines it and reads that he, No. 40866, is to report immediately after break- fas on the morrow,et "B" cell houses Some more red tape, he meditetes, indifferently placing the slip in the pociey of nis naw, stiif blue work shirt. The day dregs wearily by. With the exception of « small booklet ‘itlei “Rules and heguletions" there is nothing to read. He turns the pages idly, becones interested, and is soon buried deep in the contents of the booklet, Sleep evertually evertakes hin. He is aroused from his nap by tre clanrinc: of a bell somewhere jn the huge ceil house. There is « muttering and con:otione A “break”, ho wonders. Deore are Loudly slammed as the renge- » Oluest cimmitaueously bear down on the levers relessing the locks and open- in: the sany barred doors. Eis door, too,opens. He sees men passing by. Sams walk vit} arss uround a guddy's shoulder. Others file by singly, er run to cetch up with a friend. Hany Glance in at the new arrival, Every man in the prisem hes long since learned he has arrived. Tie grapevine system is a remarkable one, it taking (a5 teste have proved) exactly two minutos for a mossaye to be sent from one of the main ¢e1] houses te tin far e @ of the Duck Mill, a distance of three city equares, interspersed with at deust fifteen watehful cuerds at various points between, and the