Jimmy said, "Why, warden, I never was in Springfield
in my life."
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The reader is informed that Jimmy is a well-known safecracker and is serving time for a job he pulled in Springfield. Not only that, but the dialogue between the two men introduces the theme of "reformation." Jimmy does not appear to take any notice of the warden's advice to stop cracking safes and live straight, but he may have been thinking along those lines already.
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