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Some cut out and rigged model ships, others knitted, some made quilts from patches purchased for a trifle by the warders for them in the town, some made fancy boxes of straw, others carved walking-sticks, paper-cutters, and other trifles. Each day, two or three of their number had permission to go down into the town to sell their own and their comrades' manufactures, and to buy materials.
But as for Face-of-god, he went not to the meadow, but abode sitting on the bench in the Market-place, where were none else now of the kindreds save the appointed warders.
He made eager inquiries of the warders as to the welfare of his child; and it was perhaps owing to the compassion of one of them that the chaplain came to him an hour later in his cell with news of her. She was better, she was in the hands of kindly women who would take care of her, and she would come to see her father by-and-bye. A convulsive twitch passed over Andrew's face.
Six men, perhaps, lay in bed, guarded by two warders; one old fellow with rheumatism groaning in agony, two others dazed and very still, with high fever. We walked round quickly, don Felipe as before mechanically looking at their tongues and feeling their pulse, speaking a word to the assistant and moving on. The windows were shut and there was a horrid stench of illness and drugs and antiseptics.
He recognised the uniforms, and guessed that the men were prison warders. "Good God!" he exclaimed thickly, "the fools think I am Gurn! But I am not Gurn! Ask " He cast a despairing eye at Lady Beltham who throughout the awful scene remained on her knees in a corner of the room, dumb with anguish, apparently deaf and turned to stone. "Tell them, madame," he implored her.
I certainly did reprobate in my discourse the habit of swearing, but no personality to Hawes was intended." "No personality intended when you know he swears!" "Yes, but the warders swear, too. Why should Mr. Hawes take it all to himself?" "Oh! if the turnkeys swear, then it was not so strictly personal." "To be sure," put in Mr. Jones inadvertently, "I believe they learned it of the governor."
He could buy 'em at so much a gross with a cash discount, and he did it before ever they signed on. He's got two of the warders and Mercer the second mate, and he'd get the captain himself if he thought him worth it. "'What are we to do, then? I asked. "'What do you think? said he. 'We'll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did. "'But they are armed, said I.
The only glimpse of the outside world that these prisoners obtain is when a few of them fetch water daily from a well outside the walls. As we gazed upon the strange scene from the window above, of prisoners and warders amicably chatting together, others squatting in groups over a harmless game, a horrible voice disturbed the serenity of the picture.
About twelve miles' distant, or half-way to Ikot Ekpene, where there was a camp, she met some forty chiefs and arranged for ground for a school and the beginning of the work, and for a hut for herself at the back of the native prison, where, she thought, she would have some influence over the warders. As she was never able to establish this station, its history may be rounded off here.
"I wonder," he said to one of his warders, "if Marwood could cure this cough of mine." He had got an idea into his head that Marwood would "punish" him when he came to deal with him on the scaffold, and asked to see the hangman a few minutes before the appointed hour. "I hope you will not punish me. I hope you will do your work quickly," he said to Marwood.
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