XIX. — THE GREAT BELL
The next morning Hogarth was not marched out, and near dinner-time was summoned before the Governor. Here he stood in a cage of bars in a room of “No.1” prison, devoted to prison-offences; and before him, at a littered table, sat governor and chief warder, with the witnesses of the outbreak near.
The case was gone into, the report made: whereupon the Governor looked up and down the length of Hogarth, and suddenly gave vent to a laugh.
“So, No. 76”, said he, “this was the threatened escape?”
Hogarth was now all contrition and hanging head.
“I beg for mercy”, he said, with a little smile.
“Oh, I am not your judge...Where were you when the officers were looking for you in the yard?”
“I was hiding in that little nook”.
“Confounded carelessness on someone's part...And what cut and swelled your mouth?”
“I bashed into the wall in the nook” (The can had cut him!).