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上海龙凤shlf最新地址shiftchange for the guards. The parking lot is just beyond the exercise yard, on the other 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址side of the electrically-operated main gate. At three the gate opens j and the guards 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址coming on duty and those going off mingle. There's a lot of back-slapping and 

bullyragging, comparison of league bowling scores and the usual number of tired old 

ethnic jokes. 

Sid just trundled his lining machine right out through the gate, leaving a three-inch 

baseline all the way from third base in the exercise yard to the ditch on the far side of 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Route 6, where they found the machine overturned in a pile of lime. Don't ask me how he 

did it He was dressed in his prison uniform, he stood six-feet-two, and he was billowing 

clouds of lime-dust behind him. All I can figure is that, it being Friday afternoon and all, 

the guards going off were so happy to be going off, and the guards coming on were so 

downhearted to be coming on, that the members of the former group never got their heads 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址out of the clouds and those in the latter never got their noses off their shoetops ... and old 

Sid Nedeau just sort of slipped out between the two. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址So far as I know, Sid is still at large. Over the years, Andy Dufresne and I had a good 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址many laughs over Sid Nedeau's great escape, and when we heard about that airline 

hijacking for ransom, the one where the guy parachuted from the back door of the 

airplane, Andy swore up and down that D B Cooper's real name was Sid Nedeau. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址'And he probably had a pocketful of baseline lime in his pocket for good luck,' Andy said. 

'That lucky son of a bitch.' 

But you should understand that a case like Sid Nedeau, or the fellow who got away clean 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址from the Sabbatus potato-field crew, guys like that are winning the prison version of the 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Irish Sweepstakes. Purely a case of six different kinds of luck somehow jelling together 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址all at the same moment A stiff like Andy could wait ninety years and not get a similar 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址break. 

Maybe you remember, a ways back, I mentioned a guy named Henley Backus, the 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址washroom foreman in the laundry. He came to Shawshank in 1922 and died in the prison 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址infirmary thirty-one years later. Escapes and escape attempts were a hobby of his, maybe 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址because he never quite dared to take the plunge himself. He could tell you a hundred 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址different schemes, all of them crackpot, and all of them had been tried in the Shank at one 

time or another. My favourite was the tale of Beaver Morrison, a b & e convict who tried 

to build a glider from scratch in the plate-factory basement The plans he was working 

from were in a circa-1900 book called The Modern Boy's Guide to Fun and Adventure. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Beaver got it built without being discovered, or so the story goes, only to discover there 

was no door from the basement big enough to get the damned thing out When Henley 

told that story, you could bust a gut laughing, and he knew a dozen - no, two dozen -just 

as funny. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址When it came to detailing Shawshank bust-outs, Henley had it down chapter and verse. 

He told me once that during his time there had been better than four hundred escape 

attempts that he knew of. Really think about that for a moment before you just nod your 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址head and read on. Four hundred escape attempts! That comes out to 12.9 escape attempts 

for every year Henley Backus was in Shawshank and keeping track of them. The Escape 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Attempt of the Month Club. Of course most of them were pretty slipshod affairs, the sort