No special color has been found requisite for Freethinkers, who seldom trouble the prison officials, although this fact is only another proof of their uncommon obstinacy; for it is clear that, according to their principles, they ought to fill our gaols, yet they perversely refrain from those crimes which every principle of consistency obliges them to commit.
After this ceremony we were conducted upstairs to our cells in the reception wing, to await an opportunity of washing and changing our clothes.

We passed several prisoners at work in the corridors.

All were silent and stolid, and I could hardly resist the impression that I was in a lunatic asylum.

We were handed over to a red-haired and red-bearded warder, who locked us up in separate cells.

Before closing my door, he asked whether I was a German, and had any connection with Herr Most.