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Right in the path of the Italian advance lies the fortress of Gara Mulata. Therefore Emperor and jailer took good care last week that Italy should have no chance to rescue Child of Jesus, set him up on Haile Selassie's throne. Secretly their prisoner was moved hundreds of miles to the southwest, to Bako where he could contemplate life and his chains near the craggy shores of Lake Rudolf...
...marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then into the short-termers' dormitory. Next morning he took up his duties as file clerk. His jailer announced that he would be allowed outdoors "twice a week," could entertain visitors in the basement on Sunday night...
John Bole was spending ten days in jail in a small, law-abiding town because he had solicited a passing car for a lift. But John Bole was no common hitchhiker. On the jailer and the jailer's wife he made a strongly mysterious impression; his effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing...
...French and Russian, went to Austria. There the War caught them and the authorities refused to let them leave. They were imprisoned, not in an army camp as other accounts have stated, but on the top floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian. His status as a dancer was forgotten. He had no space to practice, spent his time working on a system for annotating the dance. The authorities heard about his queer hieroglyphics, suspected him of spying. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn was responsible for the Nijinskys...
Last week he decided that he had been in jail long enough, walked out the front door, climbed into a car full of friends and drove off, taking one of the lesser wardens with him. Pressed for an explanation, Chief Night Jailer Martinez Hernaiz said he had let his prominent prisoner escape because he said he did not feel well. Behind him Juan March left a letter for his lawyer, Tomas Perie...