in two, like flies settling on sugar, and he understood what it

meant. The two halves of the room, the windows of which were

opposite the door he had come in by, were separated, not by one,

but by two nets reaching from the floor to the ceiling. The wire

nets were stretched 7 feet apart, and soldiers were walking up

and down the space between them. On the further side of the nets

were the prisoners, on the nearer, the visitors. Between them was

a double row of nets and a space of 7 feet wide, so that they