I knew I then presented. I even ventured to remark upon it; but was suddenly and sternly checked with the command:
“Silence! There’s no talking allowed here.”
Then began my twenty-four hours’ solitary confinement, and twenty-four wretched hours they were. I had only bread and water to eat and drink, and I need not say that my unhappy thoughts would not permit me to sleep. At noon next day I was taken from my cell, and brought again before the warden,
I knew I then presented. I even ventured to remark upon it; but was suddenly and sternly checked with the command:
“Silence! There’s no talking allowed here.”
Then began my twenty-four hours’ solitary confinement, and twenty-four wretched hours they were. I had only bread and water to eat and drink, and I need not say that my unhappy thoughts would not permit me to sleep. At noon next day I was taken from my cell, and brought again before the warden,