Barnaby knew that the jail was a dull, sad, miserable place, and looked forward to to-morrow, as to a passage from it to something bright and beautiful.

He had a vague impression too, that he was expected to be brave--that he was a man of great consequence, and that the prison people would be glad to make him weep.

He trod the ground more firmly as he thought of this, and bade her take heart and cry no more, and feel how steady his hand was.

'They call me silly, mother.
They shall see to-morrow!' Dennis and Hugh were in the courtyard.

Hugh came forth from his cell as they did, stretching himself as though he had been sleeping.