blue-edged uniform jacket, with gold cords on the sleeves, and a

blue belt. Here also, as in the men's room, the people were

pressing close to the wire netting on both sides; on the nearer

side, the townspeople in varied attire; on the further side, the

prisoners, some in white prison clothes, others in their own

coloured dresses. The whole length of the net was taken up by the

people standing close to it. Some rose on tiptoe to be heard

across the heads of others; some sat talking on the floor.