Word: prisoning
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During his two months' imprisonment, Mr. Bergdoll has had the freedom of the prison garden, has dined exclusively upon meals supplied by a neighboring hotel, has grown a mustache. He appeared nervous and acutely conscious that a possible ten-year sentence might await him if convicted. Large drops of perspiration dampened his brow as he took the stand in a courtroom from which spectators were excluded "for the protection of public morals...
Fortunately, the master myth on which the later legends are based is being somewhat allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
Before his marriage had come the curious episode of his supervision of the Nevada State's Prison, full of the toughest men that lived. He talked to them of ideals. They mocked. He abolished the lockstep. They did not object. He made the prison clean ("It doesn't cost the state anything to be clean," said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond...
...Mariniere is outward bound. Yet in her salon no jesting cynic twinkles at Haig and Haig across a mahogany bar. La Mariniere is a prison ship and she has no room for jests. But there are cynics on her passenger lists, men who have tasted the wine of life and have eaten its dust, men outward bound for French Guiana and hell...
...Republic of France is amused by anachronisms. And La Mariniere is an anachronism. A prison ship sailing modern seas, is it not intriguing? Perhaps some Wilde will picture another bit of blue these voyageurs call their sky: perhaps some Lovelace will discover for them that even the penal isolation of French Guiana is not a cage. La Mariniere sails on. Classicists and romanticists, cynics and cooks, these branded brethren of despair continue their one determined and certain route. Outward bound delightful trip, and on the government. Bon voyage...