"We have not been able to."
"When were they locked up?"
"Yesterday evening at six o'clock."
"This is a very extraordinary state of things."
"It is, or I shouldn't have asked for instructions."
"It's now three o'clock in the afternoon. They've been without food for twenty-one hours. You've no right to keep them without food all that time."
"We are helpless. The construction of the night-cells does not permit of our introducing food into the interior when the doors are closed."
"Have they been quiet?"
"They've been as quiet as under the circumstance was to be expected."
As they were crossing towards the north division the governor spoke again: