hundred voices shouting at once, the reason of which he did not

at once understand. But when he came nearer to the people, he saw

that they were all pressing against a net that divided the room

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