They shared together their stores and the delicacies which would be furnished them by visiting ladies or by the counsel of Bucholz, who frequently visited his client and supplied him with needed articles of diet, which were not furnished by the authorities of the prison.
Thus matters went on, the friendship of Sommers and William Bucholz seeming to increase with every recurring day, and the watchful Brown still jealously watching their movements and attempting to listen to their confidences.
They were sitting together one day shortly after this, when Bucholz, in a jocular manner, addressing his companion, said: "Ah, my dear Sommers, I am surprised to find you here in jail and upon such a charge as they have brought against you." "Yes, but my dear Bucholz, consider my surprise to find you here, and upon the charge of murder, too.

You must remember you are not clear yet," answered Sommers, with a tinge of annoyance in his voice, but whether it was his tone or the language used that brought the color to the face of the accused man, Sommers did not then know.
"Ah, you should not joke upon such a serious matter," he answered, with a degree of confusion that could not have escaped the attention of his friend.
"Never mind, my friend," replied Sommers.

"It will all come out right in the end, only you must not talk to your fellow-prisoners about their troubles, nor allow them to talk to you about yours." "Oh, no!" said Bucholz; "my lawyers always tell me to say nothing to anybody." "That is right.

You cannot tell who would be your friend or who your enemy, in a place of this kind." The next day, as they were sitting together, two German newspapers were handed to Sommers by the hall-man, and upon receiving them he handed them at once to his companion.

Bucholz opened the paper carelessly, but as his eyes glanced over its contents, he stopped, started to his feet, and then throwing the paper suddenly down upon the floor, he buried his face in his hands.
"What is the matter now ?" asked Sommers, astonished at this strange behavior, and picking up the discarded paper.
"Look there!" exclaimed Bucholz, pointing to a passage in the paper.
"Read that.