Poor fool, he keeps holding his hand back, so." Mr.Gryce noted the gesture; it was the same which Bartow had made when he first realized that he had spectators.

Its meaning was not wholly apparent.

He had made it with his right hand (there was no evidence that the mute was left-handed), and he continued to make it as if with this movement he expected to call attention to some fact that would relieve him from custody.
"Does he mope?
Is his expression one of fear or anger ?" "It varies, sir.

One minute he looks like a man on the point of falling asleep; the next he starts up in fury, shaking his head and pounding the walls.

It's not a comfortable sight, sir.