see. [Looking towards FALDER'S cell] The poor devil must just stick it then.     

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         As he says thin he looks absently at WOODER.       

       WOODER. Beg pardon, sir?     

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         For answer the GOVERNOR stares at him, turns on his heel, and walks away. There is a sound as of beating on metal.       

       THE GOVERNOR. [Stopping] Mr. Wooder?     

       WOODER. Banging on his door, sir. I thought we should have more of that.     

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         He hurries forward, passing the GOVERNOR, who follows closely.       

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         The curtain falls.       

       SCENE III     

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         FALDER's cell, a whitewashed space thirteen feet broad by seven deep, and nine feet high, with a rounded ceiling. The floor is of shiny blackened bricks. The barred window of opaque glass, with a ventilator, is high up in the middle of the end wall. In the middle of the opposite end wall is the narrow door. In a corner are the mattress and bedding rolled up [two blankets, two sheets, and a coverlet]. Above them is a quarter-circular wooden shelf, on which is a Bible and several little devotional books, piled in a symmetrical pyramid; there are also a black hair brush, tooth-brush, and a bit of soap. In another corner is the wooden frame of a bed, standing on end. There is a dark ventilator under the window, and another over the door. FALDER'S work [a shirt to which he is putting buttonholes] is hung to a nail on the wall over a small wooden table, on which the novel "Lorna Doone" lies open. Low down in the corner by the door is a thick glass screen, about a foot square, covering the gas-jet 

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