The Wingham Times, 1897-05-14, Page 7111.E WINGIIAM TIMES MAY 14. 0 7.
chaplain with the warder in the back
°HEN s 1? 1IJU €;round,
1 1Vllat could it mean ? Ile sprang
l up rubbing his eyes, and almost be-
i fur he knew what was happening
On the heights of Portland the i the governor had told Win in a fere
December mist, still undispersed by words that ha had received the
sunrise, hung thick, obliterating all queen's pardon, and then proceeded
traces of the prison buildings from Ito read the .toile, What could it all
the reads, where several ships of the mean ? No other thought gernlin•
sq oulrun lay at ant her, soul al$., , ated his dulled brain. Frere ! Free
from the Waggling row of houses at ' W go whore ne willed. Free to
the bate of the northwest slope. In walk out of the jail gates. Never to
the prison itself there was no light : return within the stones walls which
as yet ;we in she eorridore, np and , had shat Min in from the outside
Winchester nssizea, some ten yeara
ago, and who is now completing his
sentence of 15 years, penal servitude
at Portland. Harborde will be- re•
leased this morning. The step bas
been taken. in consequence of the
confession of a dying mail in Bristol.
Nothing more. now he knew why he
hod been released. And so death
had taken Edward "Elwell out of the
hand$ ofjustice. It was hardly fair
of death. The porter came up
whistling, to tell him that the train
would start in ten minutes. He got-
np,
otnp, thrust the paper into the man's
down which the ever•alert wardens world as :surely as no other world hand and pointed to the paragraphs.
paced monotononsly to and fro, In • than that contained within them es- Thats me.
most of thecells .the prisoners slept, ; isted. Tho prison bell clanged You Thomas I-Iarbordc? exclaimed
tired out with the previous day's I startling hits into a state of wake- the man. Tlien all I've got to say
hewing df stone an uncongenial + fulness, The governor had finished is its a banged shame the Queen
didn't send, a coach -and -six for you:
Let's have your band man, to wish
you good luck. Gut a missis? No!
8o much the better; poor soul, if you
to have no comprehensiou of their bad, it would cut her up terrible.
A little more than ten years ago meaning. • He remained standing in No, said IIarborde. as though
he stood in the dock of a west of 1 the centre of the cell speechless, At speaking to himself, I was to have
Liisrlan• t city listening to a judge I last the chaplain made him under- been married ; but that'a years ago
with a hard voice, though with kind- stand the import of the document now, and I am an old man.
.ly oyes, pronounced 15 years' penal 1 which had jest been read over to Oldl interjected the ported,. you're
tasks, bet in one the oe,eupant, a
man of 35,t geodloekia in spite •of
prison gt,rb, chits cropped hair, and
,the ravages of toil and despair, la y
on his had awake.
the official -looking p)tper, and with
the conclusion Ortho formal part of
his duty he added a few words • of
congrxtulatioe, Harborde seemed
servitud.t. All that an eloquent titin,
council c,uld do had been done fur "Free ! Free! tt is itipossiblity" he
Ahim, but of no avail. The evidence exclaimed and then threw himself on
seethed conclusively daninatory, and the bed in an agony of joy. The
the foremen of the jury after an ab- bells afresh, the ,s!am,ning of the
Bence of half a.n hour, answered doors, the echoing of the footsteps
"guilty"'to the usual question with, nitwit the resoundingo, corridors, re -
a ring of conviction in his voice. , called him to a sense of his position.
The judge's words to Thomas Har- A warder entered with a suit of
horde fell on deaf ears. He stood , clothes. With trembling fingers be
stupidly gazing at a young girl sit• removed the prison garb, worn soiled
ting at the back of the court in the • with weather arid labor, and intoler-
coinpany u: a sweet faced old lady, able. The trouser, felt chilly. after
as though he SAW nothing. At last 1 the thick tight fitting knickerbockers
a warder touched him on the should- I and the rough thick worsted stock-
er, and at the same instant a piteous tugs. The coat seested ta fit hira
cry of "0, Tom! Tom! They're going I nowhere. With one look around the
to take you away from we," rang cell, on the walls of whith he had
oat in the court over which the dust done innumerable calculations to
of the late ntternoon was creeping, keep himself from insanity, bred by
gradually blotting out the features the terrible silence and the sense of
of those who sat at all in shadow. loneliness. No. 27, now no longer a `
The prisoner turned round as though mere figure, a machine, but at
about to say something to the judge human being, stepped into the cord-
on the bench, and then, led by the dor..
warder, he vanished down the dock
stairs to the cells, to be known no
longer as Thomas Harborde, but by long years, but he had no appetite,
various numbers: at Portland convict The one idea now possessing his
prison as "No 27." mind, was home, escape while the
The sense of innecense brown ht him governor was willing for him to de-
j- —contrary to all preconceived no. part, He swallowed a few mouth-
• tions of writers of fiction; it merely fills, and took a few grasps of oocoa
filled hint with desperate wrath and and then with the allowance money
blackest despair, In the early per- in his pocket hurried to the gatewaf
ind of his confinement he found him- He was free. Free to go. where -
self confronted day in and day out' ever he liked. Free to start fcr
i•
, with the crushing sense of the legion home as fast as steam could
of hours minutes and seconds before carry him. Ile rushed down the •
he could hope to be a free man—if road waving his arms with the re-'
even he were to be one again. By awakened instincts of a boy eseaphig
good conduct -'-against the very from school, oblivious alike of the
thought of which he at first rebelled sympathetic gaze of women he l
refusing to accept any •boon at the passed and the half eontemptuous
hands •of fate -=ht; might reduce
1.a.. these years to two thirds maybe
What then, millions of seconds, each
one .to him, a prisoner, unappreciable
part of life, h,tudreds of thousands
There was a breakfast for him,
such as he had not tasted for nine
remarks of the men. He dashed into
the bleak, shabby little railway
station, only to learn that there was,l
no train for an hour. Already his 1
limbs unused to such riotous move-
of leaden -footed minutes, each ene menta and still feeling the lag of the
filled with a poignant despair, must chain, begun to fail him, making the
pass ere the time of releasegrewnear.
• At work under the seorchirg sun or
in the keen air of winter in the
quarries it was all the same, These
hours and minutes became embodi :d
in the persons of the warders and
fellow prisoners, in the presence of
his chains. From a possibly danger-
• ous elan he because almost an iu-
animate.machine, a mere cogwheel
in the round of daily toll and prison
dicipline,
Through the long Dacentber night
while the mist enshrouded Portland
and restricted the range of the lights
at the Bill to halt' a mile or less and
while the sirens sounded fl um the
lighthouse gallery almost continuel-
ly, answerers faintly by others from
vessels far out at sea, or booming
harshly from others near at hand.
tlarhorde lay awake reckoning the
weeks, days, hours and minutes that.
• comprised the remainin=g tw) years
eof his term. He had just dropped
4 off int a half sleeping condition when
his cell door opened and instead of
half jocular su;gesti )n of the solitary
porter, that he should take a little
and walk to Weymouth, oat of the
question.
I'll have to wait, was all • he
could think of to say.
Doin' time, ain't altogether matter
no more than five•and thirty, I'll go
bail. You do look older, to be sure.
But wait till you've been out a bit,
you'll soon rub off them lines and
look a bit more uppish.
The engine at the end of the short
train of carriages relegated to the
Portland line after becoming too
thoroughly out of date for even the
Somerset and Dorset local' service
between Weymouth and Dorchester
gave a thin, wintry squeak, and
Harborde is a fever of apprehension
lest it should start without him,
tumbled into the first carriage that
came handy, ticketless.
It was quite dark when Applebury
was reached,and IIarborde, luggage -
less, speedily passed out of the
station without being recognized.
There seemed little alternation in
the place. Several of the shops—
now gay with Christmas -goods and
finery—in the main street now had
large plate -glass windows in place of
more countryfied fronts, - but were
otherwise much the same as 15 years
ago.For a moment he stood confused,
staring up and down the street, re-
garded by the passers-by with curi-
osity. Then he remembered that he
would have to go along the street,
past the grocer's whose window pro
jetted a yard into the footpath, turn
down the by -street, and then 'again
turning take the road leading to his
home.
In ten minutes he reached the
garden gate. He had run part of
the way, and now he could not make
up his mind to go up the drive to
the door. - What if they were all
dead? He grew sick at the very
idea. There was a light in his
mother's room, which was at the
front of the house. What if she were
ill—perhaps dying? At last his legs_
carried him up the drive which swept
around the little front la
semi -circle. He heard the bell
tingle shrilly at the back of the
house. The sound seemed like
home. Alt at once he remembered
how, years ago, he had banged it
With a longha,ndled broom till. it
dangled against its fellow on either
side.
The door opened. A flood of light
atin, nor strengthenin' work, the streamed out on the gravel. It was
porter remarked- a strange face and the face sent an
Harborde nodded his head, yet ie shock to his heart. Far outside
longed to tell him that he was an himself he beard a voice he did not
innocent man. The porter, however, recognize as his own asking if Dr.
had vanished, to return in a few Harborde were in. A year seemed
minutes with a paper, toass before the servant said: No,
Here mate ! be exclaimed, with adding: Did you wish to see hint
rough kindness, you wont know all particular?
yesterday's news, I'll go bail. Yes.
Harborde seized the paper. No ! he'll be in in half an hour.
he knew nothing of yesterday's news Is --is Mrs, IIarborde in? Is she
nor that of thousands ot days which alive? said the loan at the door,
had once been yesterday. He could throwing the words at her when
see nothing at first, The print swain once his tongue consented to frame
in a confusedjumblo before his eyes. ' them,
When his sight cleared he comment Why, Lor'd bless me, yes"
ed to read, none of that.
How strange it was he used to bo Bat it was no use. The man she
• la ust notice wit 1 sus iclous
Come
the hard face of the warder Came to a great reader, before he became 1 d j d I p' ' ly
tidy up, he saw the governor and No. 27, and no w he seemed to know ' short hair and a i tr•ange wild -looking
nothing of the world. New names face had pushed past her, thrown open
1 .eM.au.- confronted him everywhere. Names the sitting room door stumbled into it
--- of those in authority, names of towns, , and thrown his arm around a sweet
names ofs countries. Where was faced old lady who rose in alarm at
Mashonaland and Matabeleland ? He his sudden entrance.
was confused. He read on. This I My son! my son! rang out throttgh
1
delicious new found world of turmoil, ;the house, Mother! mother!
how good it was after all. I The girl stood rooted to the spot,
At last his eye caught a small `then she ran to Jane, and the two
paragraph stowed away at the bot- of them carne out into the passage.
tont of the third column on page six • In the sitting room with its pink
of the paper, He read and reread shaded lamp, a woman was seated
men "You never know ycu it over and over again. Her Majesty - kissing every line on her son's face
have takena put tet it Ilan
the (ween has bean „raciously pleas --t very 1111e that the long years
Over." 210, e. I. ileo? st co., +, ed to pardon 1 ltoluits Harborde had written, And ho stroked the
i'roprietors, Lowell, Mass.tIacd'i t sauarllll► who was convicted ot forgery at the hair that cull lay thick, though
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And I also, with the sadness and
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The voice of the elder woman
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J?or this my •son was dead' and is
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Saturday last William Dickson, I t 0 _ ; c- ,iT. g `e, .l. .
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He was born in Galashiels, Rex_ ' tt I.. :sites t
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He aided in establishing the Renfrew
Journal, now the Mercury, but in
1865 left that section and moved to
Goderieh. He was appointed turn-
key at the goal on the 15th of Oet., Opposite
1865. and succeeded to the goaler-
ship in 1877. Ile was married in
in 1852 and Mrs. Dickson died in
1895,
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