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DANNY BRADY was a foolish young man, but he had quite enough intelligence to know that his appeal, which he would make automatically, was doomed to failure. He was completely satisfied on the subject when the governor, making his morning visit to the condemned cell, told him that a parcel of books had arrived for him.
He showed Danny the list and told him he could have one volume at a time. Danny chose _The Life of Napoleon_. He spent the greater part of the day writing a letter to the girl he would never see again, and took _The Life of Napoleon_ to bed with him. About eleven o'clock he put the book on the floor.