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ue ral buildings through which the message must pass. In Qistance including other words, & grapevine mocsage originating in the formrd gepthe 0, the S+ 5- Leviathan - supposing 4t wore prison - would reach the party intended for om the efter-deck, after st had passed through the depths aft, midehipe, then to the bow, and back to the stern ~ using neither pencil, peper nor telephone, A detter idee of the effectiveness and reliacility of the grapevine can be obtained by observing the left wing of the Administration potlding (in the left deckground of the serial photograph) and the Dasoball Aiezond in the right foreground, Such « distance would require three to five minutes. With this in mind one oan better comprehend the situations that develop with the progress of the narrative, “come on, buddy,” someone calls to Capcne as be looks out at the passing convicts. “Chow!” He realizes, with a stabbing pain im the stomach, that he ds mingry! Strange, he reflecte that he hadn't given food « thought! Be pt aut Ante the passing Jine, nis broad antle exhintting two rows of perfectly white tecth, hs thick lower lip thinned ty the radiance of Nis satle. Knowing pot which way to turn, except to follow the others, he finds binself, in single file, entering the Dining Hall. Tt te a7 Amense roms, broad and highs Tall columns, painted battleship grays roach uP to the coiling above. There are rons after roms of what soem snall white enane} counters, & lice of men, entering on his right, have been seated in rows of eight; thea, in the next section, rons of six. They svem f° file in endle Four mndred . « Five hundred . . Six hundred, » Twelve Mundreds « ‘Thirteen yundeed. «Or and ont The place 4s rot large enouzh to hold el}, It is neces nary to have threo broekfacts, three dinners, three suppers euch day in order ixteen hundred. to feed all the imetes. The Dining Ball fapproxizately rere are sore than twenty-five bundred inmtes In the institutton. Capone, sandwiched between a “hiil-billy” end « car & ne kidney beans and slaw for je had pereed hie plate. One oltow rests on the counter-like table; his chin Je cupped im his hand, lis stonach erfes for food, but his “delicate syster will not stand this!"