others. Each of them had half his head shaved, and their presence

was indicated by the clanking of the chains on their feet. On the

other side of the gallery stood those in preliminary confinement,

without chains, their heads not shaved.

The prison church had been rebuilt and ornamented by a rich

merchant, who spent several tens of thousands of roubles on it,

and it glittered with gay colours and gold. For a time there was

silence in the church, and only coughing, blowing of noses, the