Without light man’s body perishes, with iuKuilleient light it droops; and hero in all those separate shambles is insufficient light, a defect in our system which co-oper ates with this individual gaoler’s abuse of it. Another of the body's absolute needs is work; another is conversation with human beings. If, by isolating a vulgar mind that has collected no healthy food to feed on in time of dearth” you starve it to a stand-still, the body runs down like a watch that has not been wound up. Against this law of Nature it is not only impious but idiotic to struggle. Almighty God has made man so, and so he will re main while the world lasts. A little destructive blockhead like this call knock God’s work to pieces—eccc sig ninn—but. he can no more alter it while it stands than ho can mend it when he has let it down and smashed it. Feel this man’s pulse and look at his eye life is ebbing from him by a law of Nature as uniform as that which gov erns the tides.” “His pulse is certainly very low, and when I first felt it he was trembling all over.” “Oh, that was the agitation of his nerves —we opened the door suddenly. “And did that make a man tremble:-'” “Certainly; that is a well-known symptom of solitary confinement; L is by shattering a’ man’s nerves all to pieces that it prepares the way for his death, which death comes sometimes in raging lunacy, of which eight men have died under Mr Hawes’ reign. Here is a list of deaths by lunacy from broach of Rule 37—eight. You will have the particulars by and bye.” “I really don’t sec my way through this,” said Mr Lacy; “let us come to something tangible. M hat is this pun ishment jacket that leaves marks of personal violence on so many prison ers I”

Now Hawes had been looking for this machine to hide it, but to his sur prise neither he nor Fry could find it. “Evans, fetch the infernal machine.” “Yes, your reverence."

donee.” , , “I ha’’o a book here that contains ample evidence; you shall sec it. Meantime I will just ask that turnkey about Hatchett, the first name on the list of victims. 