n view of their long services this night, they were dismissed for the
term. The only thing remaining to be done now was for Steger to persuade
Judge Payderson to grant a stay of sentence pending the hearing of a
motion by the State Supreme Court for a new trial.

The Judge looked at Cowperwood very curiously as Steger made this
request in proper form, and owing to the importance of the case and
the feeling he had that the Supreme Court might very readily grant
a certificate of reasonable doubt in this case, he agreed. There was
nothing left, therefore, but for Cowperwood to return at this late hour
with the deputy sheriff to the county jail, where he must now remain for
five days at least--possibly longer.

The jail in question, which was known locally as Moyamensing Prison,
was located at Tenth and Reed Streets, and from an architectural and
artistic point of view was not actually displeasing to the eye. It
consisted of a central portion--prison, residence for the sheriff or
what you will--three stories high, with a battlemented cornice and a
round battlemented tower about one-third as high as the central portion
itself, and two wings, each two stories high, with battlemented turrets
at either end, giving it a highly castellated and consequently, from the
American point of view, a very prison-like appearance. The facade of the
prison, which was not more than thirty-five feet high for the central
portion, nor more than twenty-five feet for the wings, was set back at
least a hundred feet from the street, and was continued at either end,
from the wings to the end of the street block, by a stone wall all of
twenty feet high. The structure was not severely prison-like, for the
central portion was pierced by rather large, unbarred apertures hung on
the two upper stories with curtains, and giving the whole front a
rather pleasant and residential air. The wing to the right, as one stood
looking in from the street, was the section known as the county jail
proper, and was devoted to the care of prisoners serving short-term
sentences on some judicial order. The wing to the left was devoted
exclusively to the care and control of untried prisoners. The whole
building was built of a smooth, light-colored stone, which on a snowy
night like this, with the few lamps that were used in it glowing
feebly in the dark, presented an eery, fantastic, almost supernatural
appearance.

It was a rough and blowy night when Cowperwood started for