“If you think that, why did you not stop him till Fry came back with the book?”

“I had my reasons; meantime we are not at a stand-still.  Here is an attested copy of the journal in question; and here is Mr. Hawes’s log-book.  Fry’s book intended for no mortal eye but his own; Hawes’s concocted for inspection.”

“I see a number of projecting marks pasted into Fry’s journal!”

“Yes, sir; on some of these marks are written the names of remarkable victims, recurring at intervals; on others are inscribed the heads of villainy—­’the black-hole,’ ‘starvation,’ ‘thirst,’ ’privation of exercise,’ ‘of bed,’ ‘of gas,’ ‘of chapel,’ ‘of human converse,’ ‘inhuman threats,’ and the infernal torture called the ‘punishment-jacket.’  Somewhat on the plan of ’Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica.’  So that you can at will trace any one of Mr. Hawes’s illegal punishments, and see it running like a river of blood through many hapless names; or you can, if you like it better, track a fellow-creature dripping blood from punishment to punishment, from one dark page to another, till release, lunacy, or death closes the list of his recorded sufferings.”

Aided by Mr. Eden, who whirled over the leaves of Mr. Hawes’s log-book for him, Mr. Lacy compared several pages of the two books.  The following is merely a selected specimen of the entries that met his eye: 

MR. FRY.  MR. HAWES.

Joram.Writing on his can—­bread and    Joram.Refractory—­bread and
water.                                 water.

Joram.Bread and water.

Joram.Bread and water.  Joram.Refractory—­crank; bread
                                       and water.

Joram.Crank not performed—­bread
and water.

Joram.Punishment-jacket.

Joram.Refractory—­crank—­bread and     Joram.  Refractory—­bread and
water.                                 water.

Joram.Attempted suicide; Joram.  Feigned suicide; cause insensible when found.  Had religious despondency—­put on cut off pieces of his hair to sick-list. send to his friends—­sick-list.

Josephs.  Crank not performed; says     Josephs.  Refractory; said
he could not turn the crank No. 9;     he would not work on crank 9;
punishment-jacket.                     punishment-jacket.

Tomson.  Communicating in chapel—­ Tomson.Communicating—­dark cells. dark cell 12 hours.

Tomson.  Bread and water.

Tomson.  Crank not performed; Tomson.  Refractory—­jacket. punishment-jacket.

Tomson.  Dark cells.

Tomson.  No chapel.

Tomson.  Dark cells.

Tomson.  Melancholy.  Tomson.  Afflicted with remorse
                                       for past crimes—­surgeon.

Tomson.  Very strange.

Tomson.  Removed to lunatic asylum.  Tomson.  Removed to asylum.