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 unsteady hand in the barracks. And Mr. Karl (I draw attention to the fact that in jail strict heed is paid to the proper use of formalities in intercourse; "Mr." must not be omitted in addressing anyone; Mr. Fiedler, Mr. Karl, etc.) declared that if only those were to serve their time in jail who were actually mixed up in things, number 60 would have to contain quite different people from those who were there. Of course, they both gave a glance at our table, as if they were making a silent exception (I was sitting there with Budi and Papa Declich—Dušek was already performing office work); for Mr. Karl and the sergeant were patriots.

The sergeant was put in charge,—good. But after a while he came to ask me how he should manage at morning and evening roll-call ii the superintendent did not come; he said that he as a sergeant could not say "all present, sir" to the warders Sponner and Gehring who were only platoon-leaders. l assured him very solemnly that in truth he could not. Whereupon he went to the censorists, explained the difficult situation to them, corroborated it by my opinion; the censorists listened to him, nodded their heads, remarked: jo, jo, but expressed no views whatever on their ovn initiative, for which reason the sergeant applied to Mr. Nicolodi. Nicolodi used to sit all day on his box leaning upon a stick. He was an old man of seventy, with tiny short legs which could scarcely carry him across the room. He was an Italian from Roveredo and had been here for several weeks. At the beginning of the war he had entered a refugees' camp, then there had been a domiciliary search where he lived in Roveredo, and in his shop (he was a tradesman who had retired from business, which was carried on by his daughter and son-in-law, but they had fled to Italy) had been found flags with the Italian colours. It wasin vain he objected that he had not put them there, or that he knew nothing about them, that