And above all things, next morning Warden Atherton came into my cell on murder intent.

With him were Captain Jamie, Doctor Jackson, Pie-Face Jones, and Al Hutchins.

Al Hutchins was serving a forty-years' sentence, and was in hopes of being pardoned out.

For four years he had been head trusty of San Quentin.

That this was a position of great power you will realize when I tell you that the graft alone of the head trusty was estimated at three thousand dollars a year.