"Jim, do me a favour, and arrest me ... and I'll sue you, the city of
Laurel, and 'Senator' Blair ... all three of you!"
"--guess I won't do it ... but _do_ sit on the bench ... I ask it as a
personal favour, Johnnie."
"As a personal favour, Jim, till you are out of sight. Then I'll go back
to the grass."
That night Blair, cocksure, had the story of my arrest in the paper.
But, as it happened, he was too previous....
Jerome Miller and Jack Travers joined me in going to the office of the
_Globe_, the next morning....
After we had finished telling him what we thought of him, the "Senator"
begged my pardon profusely, and the next day a retraction was
printed....
* * * * *
And now school was over at Laurel.
And I determined to bum my way to New York, and, from there, ship on a
cattleboat to Europe. Where I would finish writing my play, _Judas_.