Cast the First Stone
“He didn’t hurt him much. It was all over when I got back. Some fellows had pulled them apart. They didn’t really want to fight, anyway.
The night guard didn’t like to take anybody to the hole. When he saw it was all over he went back to the guardstand without even questioning them.
All the other convicts were laughing about it. Some of them cracked that the fight had been over me. I didn’t like that. I asked Mal. But he said it had started about my paper. I had left it on the bunk when I went out into the aisle. The General had picked it up. Then Mal had snatched it out of his hand. One word had led to another. Then the General had jumped up and slapped him. He conked the General with the timber. I didn’t like the General anyway so I said, “Swell.”
The next day Mal was transferred. It didn’t have anything to do with the fight. He had been trying to get a job down at the furnace where the aluminum dishes were molded.
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