[The Jacket (The Star-Rover) by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jacket (The Star-Rover) CHAPTER IV 11/25
of the forty have died in the succeeding six years. After my five years in solitary, when they took me away from San Quentin for my trial, I saw Skysail Jack.
I could see little, for I was blinking in the sunshine like a bat, after five years of darkness; yet I saw enough of Skysail Jack to pain my heart.
It was in crossing the Prison Yard that I saw him.
His hair had turned white.
He was prematurely old. His chest had caved in.
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