In Our Time

It was very jolly. We talked for a long time. Like all Greeks he wanted to go to America.

If Kerensky had shot a few men things might have been altogether different. Of course the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself!

Oh how do you do, she said.

She was clipping a rose bush.

The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me. We walked through the garden. This is the queen, he said.

They came out onto the gallows through a door in the wall. There were six or seven of them including two priests. They were carrying Sam Cardinella. He had been like that since about four o’clock in the morning.

One of the white men sat on his cot with his head in his hands. The other lay flat on his cot with a blanket wrapped around his head.

Five men sentenced to be hanged were in the five top cells. Three of the men to be hanged were negroes. They were very frightened

They hanged Sam Cardinella at six o’clock in the morning in the corridor of the county jail

Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film. Then he was dead.