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A Retrieved Reformation By O. Henry
A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four-year sentence. He had expected to stay only about three months, at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the `stir` it is hardly worth while to cut his hair.
`Now, Valentine,` said the warden, `youꡑll go out in the morning. `Brace up, and make a man of yourself. Youꡑre not a bad fellow at heart. Stop cracking safes, and live straight`
`Me?` said Jimmy, in surprise. `Why, I never cracked a safe in my life.`
`Oh, no,` laughed the warden. `Of course not. Letꡑs see, now. How was it you happened to get sent up on that Springfield j…(생략)