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The first aparte vaulted

room with iron bars to the s-rooe picture of the Crucifixion

"What's that for?" he thought, his

the subject of the picture with liberation and not with

i visitors pass before, and

experiencing aof horror at the evil-doers locked

up in this building, compassion for those who, like Katusha and

the boy they tried the day before, uiltless,

and shyness and tender eht of the interview

before hi-roo as they passed, but Nekhludoff, absorbed by his own

thoughts, paid no attention to him, and continued to follow the

ot into thethe hurrying visitors pass before hi-room As soon as Nekhludoff opened the

door of this roo roar of a

hundred voices shouting at once, the reason of which he did not

at once understand But when he ca against a net that divided the rooar, and he understood what it

meant The two halves of the room, the s of which were

opposite the door he had come in by, were separated, not by one,

but by two nets reaching fro The wire

nets were stretched 7 feet apart, and soldiers alking up

and down the space between them On the further side of the nets

were the prisoners, on the nearer, the visitors Between them was

a double row of nets and a space of 7 feet wide, so that they

could not hand anything to one another, and any one whose sight