Porter: I see him every night.
Jennings: Well, Jimmie has a chance to get a pardon.
Porter: What?
Jennings: So the warden says.
Porter: What has happened?
Jennings: Do you read the papers?
Porter: Yes.
Jennings: Read about this Press-Post scandal?
Porter: I saw the headlines.
Jennings: Well, here’s the biggest newspaper in this city, and the officers have been plundering it, and mixing up the books; now the treasurer has skipped town, and locked the papers in the vault, and no one has the combination.