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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

CHAPTER IV
18/25

Thurston, his name was.

He was a guard at San Quentin.

He weighed one hundred and seventy pounds and was in good health.

I weighed under ninety pounds, was blind as a bat from the long darkness, and had been so long pent in narrow walls that I was made dizzy by large open spaces.

Really, mime was a well-defined case of incipient agoraphobia, as I quickly learned that day I escaped from solitary and punched the guard Thurston on the nose.
I struck him on the nose and made it bleed when he got in my way and tried to catch hold of me.


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