Three Sevens

Warden Gracie had faith in mankind, and he believed that kindly encouragement would achieve better results in dealing with convicts than harshness and brutality. In this he differed radically from Samuel Green, whom he superseded as warden of the state penitentiary at San Pedro. The major's lovely daughter shared his views. Her feeling for Daniel Craig, known as "Three Sevens" in the prison where he was serving twenty years for a murder of which he was not guilty, was not based upon theory,...