On his first entrance, a prisoner, if unable or unwilling to comply with the exactions of the turnkeys, was thrust into the Condemned Hold with the worst description of criminals, and terrified by threats into submission. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. "Ruth?" Silence for a moment. There were white men with families, a fine mission-house, and a club-house for cards and billiards. Those whom he retained about his person, or placed in offices of trust, were for the most part convicted felons, who, having returned from transportation before their term had expired, constituted, in his opinion, the safest agents, inasmuch as they could neither be legal evidences against him, nor withhold any portion of the spoil of which he chose to deprive them. She was never announced as ‘Alcide,’ but directly she walked on she simply became ‘Alcide’ to every one. So they fenced with smiles. I've seen many a clever cracksman, but never one like him.
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