From Prisoner to Seller
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He did not listen to the song of the birds or look at the green trees or smell the flowers.
He went straight to a restaurant. There he tasted the first sweet joys of being free. He had a good dinner.
After that he went to the train station. He gave some money to a blind man who sat there, asking for money, and then he got on the train.
Three hours later he got off the train in a small town. Here he went to the restaurant of Mike Dolan. Mike Dolan was alone there.
After shaking hands he said, "I'm sorry we couldn't do it sooner, Jimmy my boy. But there was that safe in Springfield, too. It wasn't easy. Feeling all right?"
"Fine," said Jimmy. "Is my room waiting for me?"
He went up and opened the door of a room at the back of the house. Everything was as he had left it.
It was here they had found Jimmy, when they took him to prison.
There on the floor was a small piece of cloth. It had been torn from the coat of the cop, as Jimmy was fighting to escape.
There was a bed against the wall. Jimmy pulled the bed toward the middle of the room.
The wall behind it looked like any wall, but now Jimmy found and opened a small door in it.
From this opening he pulled out a dust-covered bag.
He opened this and looked lovingly at the tools for breaking open a safe.
No finer tools could be found any place. They were complete; everything needed was here.
They had been made of a special material, in the necessary sizes and shapes.
Jimmy had planned them himself, and he was very proud of them.
It had cost him over nine hundred dollars to have these tools made at a place where they make such things for men who work at the job of safe-breaking.
In half an hour Jimmy went downstairs and through the restaurant.
He was now dressed in good clothes that fitted him well. He carried his dusted and cleaned bag.
"Do you have everything planned?" asked Mike Dolan.
"Me?" asked Jimmy as if he's surprised.
"I don't understand. I work for the New York Famous Bread and Cake Makers Company. And I sell the best bread and cake in the country."
Mike enjoyed these words so much that Jimmy had to take a drink with him.
Jimmy had some milk. He never drank anything stronger.