"No!"
"Do you like that woman?"
"She is nothing to me. But if I were to ask her a question, about what does not concern me, I might not get a civil answer."
I was fast arriving to the conclusion that it would be impossible for me to assist in carrying out such a system of government.
The next day I spoke to the Deputy about letting her out. He shook his head.
"If she was one of your women, and you had the care of her, I might."
When the two days were expired, he sent me round word to let Callahan out at six o'clock. With my watch in my hand I did not defer it a moment later. As I was waiting upon her to her room, I asked her,—
"Why had you rather go into solitary than sleep on the bars?"
"If I sleep on the bars, I lose just as much time, and have to work all the next day. If I can't have my bed to sleep in, I won't work for 'em."
"I shouldn't think there would be much rest in solitary."