Chapter LI
They had not gone far until Gud was arrested. His thumb print was taken and he was cast into jail. As he did not know how to change his thumb print, he wished to know why he had been arrested, in order to judge whether it would be honorable to escape. So he inquired of one of his fellow prisoners. And the prisoner listened to Gud's story and made answer: "You have been arrested because you drove a high-powered chariot without being possessed of a large amount of money. The catalog of crime which such a combination engenders is tedious and fulsome."
"But what is the remedy?" asked Gud, for he did not like to remain a criminal.
"Money," replied the prisoner, "you should make money. If we could get out of this place I would show you how, for I am by trade a money-maker."
"Very well," said Gud, and he commanded the walls of the jail to fall down, and he and the money-maker walked out over the fallen walls and proceeded to the money-maker's den.
But Gud soon tired of the tedious process of copper engraving; and going out for a stroll about the town he came upon the booth of a fortune-teller.
"I wish you would tell me a fortune," said Gud, "for I am badly in need of one."
"But for that I charge money," said the fortune-teller.
"Why?" asked Gud.