I shall not talk much to you in future, or else when you have got away I may be suspected; so do not be surprised at my seeming cold.' "After that the woman only brought her child once a week or so to the prison, and only gave me a nod as she passed through the yard.

Upon the third visit of the child it gave me a little packet containing two or three small steel saws and a little bottle of oil.

On the paper which held them was written, 'For the bars.

You shall have a rope next time.' Sure enough next time the child had hidden in its frock a hank of very thin cord, which I managed as I was playing with her to slip unobserved into my breast.

'Mammy says more next time.' And next time another hank came.