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"I was sent to prison My hair was clipped, and I was put in stripes and steel shackles All hell was packed inconquered, asthat I was innocent I'd lie awake at night inlie after lie to bolster up my case and stir up sympathy I wrote letters tobytheirthe whole of creation and studying devilish ways to fight

"I got to writing to the Governor of the State I had heard he was kind-hearted, and I thought I ht make him believe I was innocent, so I wrote letter after letter to him I used every pretext I could think of Once I told him that I hoped God would strike me dead in my tracks and damn me eternally if I had not been falsely imprisoned Now and then he would answer, in a kind sort of way, and that ht convince him if I kept up my letters

"I was that sort of a fiend for a year Then a strange thing happened A little, mild- mine He wasn't like any other prisoner I'd ever seen He had a sad, patient face, and didn't look at all strong I took to hih toit Well, what do you think? One night as I lay withAnd the strangest part of it was that he wasn't praying like a guilty ood to the other prisoners, and open their eyes to the spiritual light, which he declared was even then shining in his cell

"Well, do you know, I listened to hiot so I could sleep better after I'd heard him pray And in the daytime I loved to find myself by his side in any e had to do I never shall forget the thing I' brick to repair a here an atteet out It was out in the sunlight, and I hadn't seen the sun many times for a year past I don't kno it come up, but soe against him Circumstantial evidence had landed hi at all I re the truth He was innocent and I was guilty I had an odd feeling after that that I had no right to be near him