ing for it.
"Fifthly:
in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand.
"Sixthly:
the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name distinctly.
This is a theft.
"Seventhly:
for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the worse for it.
"Eighthly:
it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to traverse the boys'' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie-l''Egyptienne.
"Ninthly:
it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the magistrates to prisoners.
For a gendarme, who should be sworn to secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave disorder.
"Tenthly:
Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the secret cells.
This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great civilization."
Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Below the last line he signed:"JAVERT,