CHAPTER X.DYCK CALHOUN ENTERS THE WORLD AGAIN.
"Is it near the time ?" asked Michael Clones of his friend, as they stood in front of the prison.
His companion, who was seated on a stone, wrapped in dark-green coverings faded and worn, and looking pinched with cold in the dour November day, said, without lifting his head: "Seven minutes, an' he'll be out, God bless him!" "And save him and protect him!" said Michael.

"He deserved punishment no more than I did, and it's broke him.

I've seen the grey gather at his temples, though he's only been in prison four years.

He was condemned to eight, but they've let him free, I don't know why.

Perhaps it was because of what he told the government about the French navy.