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226. Doc has one core letter permissable under the privilege granted a1) inmates. It is Tuesday evening, Doc is to be discharged in the mornizg. . Shavines hes been passing up and down before Doc's stall, wondering if and Wishing he will write that final letter. The hours pass. . » Doo reads a book. Fourtee: hours from now Doc will be free . . t Thirteen hours. « . He still roads. Twelve hours! It is now 900 PF. KE. At 10200 P.h. a1] must retire! The letter that mist be delivered to Capone is not being “written, Doc is prepa ring to retire! Then, as if receiving « telepathic messare from Shavings, an urge. « « @ command, almost. . « Doc sits down end writes. Ke destroys the letter before it is caopleted! again he begins a letter. He finishes it as the 9:45 signal, to prepare for bed,is sounded! Indolently walking to the mail box, unaware that his every movement is carefully and breathlessly watched, Dec drops the letter for posting. He returns to his stall and creeps into bed. dn less than twelve hours he will be a free man! Yot, in less than twelve houre much cen happen. He has bean expocting it dailyeo. Hourly! Capone will not let him get by with that racket! Never! Ee dreads tho darkness that will soon descend on the base- ment, « . the night of horror that it brings along} ; $55,000.00] Hot ao bad, he muses. If he can only get out Alive! And enjoy it! Lexico? Maybe. Then there's Burope, tool Some Place where he'll mever find m. Well, I can etay awake tonight. . . Aint no we taking am chance on the last night! . ‘The letter, of course, is stolen the next morning after it Teaches the mail office and posted on the ocorrospondence book. In that way, it 4s explained to Shavings, there's no come-back, The letter is immodiately delivered to Capone. Doo, meanwhile, has passed to the front on his way out. The letter, later, is turned over to John Capone. What it contained remains a mystery to us. We were not able to creep between its folded pages. . "Just as X thought? Same handwriting. That louse! Good thing I didn't have this before he left. He'd never have left!"