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Justice 213
cell is brightly lighted. Falder is seen gasping
for breath.
"
A sound from far away, as of distant, dull
beating on thick metal, is
suddenly audible. Falder
shrinks back, not able to bear this sudden clamor.
But the sounds grows, as though some great tum
bril were rolling towards the cell. And gradu
ally it seems to hypnotize him. He begins creep
ing inch by inch nearer to the door. The banging
sound, traveling from cell to cell, draws closer
and closer; Falder s hands are seen moving as if
his spirit had already joined in this beating; and
the sound swells until it seems to have entered the
very cell. He suddenly raises his clenched fists.
"
Panting violently, he flings himself at his door,
and beats on it."
Falder leaves the prison, a broken ticket-of-
leave man, the stamp of the convict upon his brow,
the iron of misery in his soul..
Falder. I seem to be struggling against a thing that s
all round me. I can t explain it: it s as if I was in a
net; as fast as I cut it here, it grows up there. I didn t
act as I ought to have, about references; but what are
you to do? You must have them. And that made me
afraid, and I left. In fact, I m I m afraid all the time
now.
Thanks to Ruth s pleading, the firm of James
How 6f Son is willing to take Falder back in their
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