noon
The visitor fixed his eyes strangely upon the prisoner . `` Very good ; if I may be allowed to trespass again , I should like to see how this fellow bears himself in the yard amongst his fellow-criminals . '' `` By all means . '' `` I 'll come , then , at noon . '' * * * * * At noon next day the German traveller was as good as his word . The governor , full of his wonted courtesy , accompanied him to the yard , where all the prisoners were walking round two and two . Some of the more desperate men were fastened by a single handcuff to the wrist of another man -- a warder .