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Rh not open his mouth once. And he moved not a muscle when the judge sentenced him to ten additional years in the penitentiary.

He was placed, now, in solitary confinement.

The solitary cells were on the top floor of the building to which the garotter had pointed, for the information of the murderer, on 9009’s first day. This building was known about the prison as the “Stone Building,” probably from the massiveness of its walls. The solitary cells were in a corridor by themselves. The light was dim there; it came from a single small window high up in the wall.

They watched him, in his cage up there, in the shadowy corridor; a guard stood all day before his steel-barred door. By night he was left alone. The cell was steel-walled, steel-floored, steel-barred in front. It was six feet long and five wide. The bunk took two and a half feet of the width; so there was left a space six feet long and two and a half feet wide in which 9009 could walk. Once each two weeks his guard took him into the corridor and let him Rh