"No doubt"
"And I only want to beg you to do what you can to soften his lot—a hard lot it is, too."
"I can do nothing, I tell you," said the porter; "I never see the prisoners."
"I thought—"
"At least, when I say never, I mean only when they are allowed to walk in the prison yard."
"That is here?"
"Yes."
"When is that?"
"Once a day; sometimes more than that, if the doctor orders it."
"The doctor must order it, then?" said the cripple to himself.