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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

CHAPTER II
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If, at two o'clock to-night, you don't catch the forty I shall name with their clothes on and wide awake, then, Captain, you can give me solitary for the rest of my sentence.

And with Standing and the forty tight in the dungeons, we'll have all the time in the world to locate the dynamite." "If we have to tear the prison down stone by stone," Captain Jamie added valiantly.
That was six years ago.

In all the intervening time they have never found that non-existent explosive, and they have turned the prison upside- down a thousand times in searching for it.

Nevertheless, to his last day in office Warden Atherton believed in the existence of that dynamite.
Captain Jamie, who is still Captain of the Yard, believes to this day that the dynamite is somewhere in the prison.

Only yesterday, he came all the way up from San Quentin to Folsom to make one more effort to get me to reveal the hiding-place.


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