He was too valuable to political "rings" and associations antagonistic to moral and social well-being to be left idle in the cell of a penitentiary for the whole term of a commitment.

Politicians have great influence, and governors are human.
On the walls of the room were pasted a few pictures cut from the illustrated papers, some of them portraits of leading politicians, and some of them portraits of noted pugilists and sporting-men.

The picture of a certain judge, who had made himself obnoxious to the fraternity of criminals by his severe sentences, was turned upside down.

There was neither table nor chair in the room.
The woman in black had passed in just before the girls, and was waiting her turn to examine the drawn numbers.

She had not tasted food since the day before, having ventured her only dime on a policy, and was feeling strangely faint and bewildered.