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Knoll had been proven a thief, but the accusation of murder against him had not been strengthened by anything but the most superficial circumstantial evidence, therefore it was necessary that Muller should talk with him in the hope of discovering something more definite. Knoll lay asleep on his cot as the detective and the warder entered the cell.
As soon as it was night and the goldsmith knew that his plot had succeeded, he repaired to the pit, taking with him a purse of a thousand dinars, and, entering into converse with the warder, sat talking with him till a third part of the night was passed, when he broached the matter to him, saying, "Know, O my brother, that this girl is innocent of that they lay to her charge and that it was I brought this calamity upon her."
"Oh, thank you!" Charlie said, as he leant back; "how comfortable you have made me!" "I have been sick-nurse, amongst other trades. For some months I was a hospital warder." "Was that when " Charlie began, and then he stopped short, and said, "Oh, I beg your pardon!" "Yes; it was when I was a convict," said the school-master. "No offence, my boy. If I preach I must try to practise.
Here," he exclaimed, loudly clashing his irons at the same time, "Here, thou Dogget-warder, son of a Saxon wolfhound!" The Palmer, striking on the door, seconded the previous exertions for summoning the jailer, who entered accordingly. "Warder," said Damian de Lacy, in a stern tone, "am I yet thy prisoner, or no?"
She felt like a leader who takes the field with a scanty band of soldiers and is unexpectedly joined by the troops of a firm friend. When Arnold, the warder from Berne, helped Eva from the saddle, a blaze of light greeted her from the imperial residence. The banquet was just beginning. Frau Gertrude had more than one piece of good news to tell while assisting the young girl.
When he was gone De Mouchy pointed to Ferrières as he said to a warder: "Arouse him!" They dragged the fainting man to his feet, and he stood limply between two gaolers; and then the judge asked: "Prisoners, is there anything you would like to say?" And mademoiselle answered for both, in a low but distinct voice: "Nothing. We confess we are of the true faith, and we are willing to die for it.
But during its first four days he had invented three separate plans of escape, and had determined upon the one which seemed the surest, though longest. When he again came up into the light, he was a marked man, under Warder Black's constant suspicion. Now, however, his expression was changed: he no longer belonged to Colmoor, though he was there.
"It is no use, young fellow," said the warder, coolly, as Richard looked at him like some hunted beast at bay. "If you was to kill me and a dozen more it would do you not a morsel of good; the law has got you tight, and it's better to be quiet." Richard uttered a low moan, more woeful than any cry of physical anguish. It touched his jailer, used as he was to the contemplation of human misery.
"Rothsay is right, Albany," said the King: "it were unlike a Christian monarch to give way in this point. I cannot consent to see men battle until they are all hewn down like cattle in the shambles. It would sicken me to look at it, and the warder would drop from my hand for mere lack of strength to hold it." "It would drop unheeded," said Albany.
During the absence of the governor the deputy takes his place, and in turn the chief warder performs the duties of the deputy governor's office. As all business passes through the chief's hands, he must be a fair scholar, though sometimes a principal warder who understands bookkeeping is detailed to assist him.
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