"When you leave this room you go direct to the cells."
"Ay, take me to your cells, and let me lie there and die and rot," said the convict.
"Take him away," said the governor.
"Paul, I beseech you to hear me!" cried Hugh, amid the clanking of the arms of the guard.
"Take him away!" the governor shouted again.
An hour after, B 2001 was recalled to the receiving-office. He was quiet enough now.
"We have an order respecting you from the Secretary of State," said the governor. "You are required to give evidence at a trial. At two o'clock you leave Portland for Cumberland, and your guard goes with you."
The convict bent his head and went out in silence.