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é i : i Hy i é 16. "Is this all we get?” he asks the car thief, "Stewed prunes there,” answers the car thief, pointing to an aluminun saucer of canned “maggies” as ne shovels into his mouth a fork ladencd with kidney beans, “black coffee, too, ‘'S not bad when ya get used to it." Capone shudiers, His stomach somersaults, The poised fork drops to the plate of kidney beans. "Say, feller," offers tha nourtuineer, “now when 1 fairst cur heak J couldes ent omich ‘cause 1 was sorte upset imeide, you mow. Anyhow, I made out on that thair moonstine. Trat's purty j,ood ‘shine, urother." Capone follo:'s his inforner"s gaze to the alvmirum molasses conteiner. be looks at the mer teyond the two betweer whom he is sandwiched. Li, when o« kid and hungry he Sone see: to be relis: iny bread and moonshine, liked it, he recellects. Pernars it might satisfy now. Yes, that does the ‘eo ore slice cf bread suotiered in soonsiine; then ano'rer, and He foress dow. the werk, ehichery coffee without sugar or crean - wrich, are not furcisied except at the sorni.f¢ meni, with cerecl. sefore ie nus quite sated ris arpetite a bell is mop by an inmnete who stunis or a pletforn. facing the prisorerc. Tie signal is received fron the binice Sall guard, whe continiali,; walks up and] down the eisles divid hici coutvery Vo the most rigid m-ot¢re sections, in seurch of contrubunl food, observance acd disciplive, reacies the prisoners, Tho last to enter tre Disizg Vgilare the lar’ to leuve, thus siving late arrivals sufficiert tice to eat, th: early arrivals eating insediately the line eters and is seated, esting each: Letcl of prisoners requires six to ei ht minutes. Tous, ofe reac} ing 40.6 Diniee Wel) eiczit minutes after the others, huve the opportunity, while the otier: are leuving, to co.plete their seul. All, however, do rot alwa s finis! in tie allotted time; mut finished or unfinished, they mu.i lewvo as their row files out, ie now becane inpatiert to seo what Lapone si#1) do with his laecure. It is now §:20 P.M. He is opain locked in Hic cell. He hears voices frou other colls, ar:uing, humming and tdking. Whistlin> is forbicden, Six F, Lk. A bell clanzsl wt can that ba, he wonder: ?