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Itwas damp and dark and so unhealthy that during the firstwinter in the new Factory eighteen inmates and twenty-sevennewborn babies died from bronchial ilbesses. With his whiskerstly concealed behind the lapels of the borrowed coat,' now looked like an old crone. ' O'Flaherty again held up: red bandanna. the Lord is uponus!' The Reverend Smedley demanded and again jabbed afat, urgent finger towards the bare boards at Mary's feet.

The official offered surety for Ikeyid the government accepted his bond, whereupon IkeyPort Arthur where he had served the past year of hisitence. The boy who crept up could not have followedhim for any distance, for Ikey was in the constanthabit of glancing over his shoulder. This was knownthe road gang as 'Billy gone queer* and so the'boy had received this strange appendage to his: it was not customary to Potbottom, the awkward whip in hand, observing thesurgeon-superintendent to clasp his hand in prayer an