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He was given more and more freedom . Indeed , between the working intervals , undisturbed by even a formal surveillance , he and Monet fell to taking walks far afield . He found the shorter days more tolerable . With dusk coming on rapidly , it was easier to accept the inflexible rule that required everyone to be in bed and locked up by seven o'clock . New faces made their appearance in Ward 6 , old ones vanished . Clancy made a get-away sometime in September just before the construction camp broke up . Fordham tried also , but was unsuccessful , and got a month in the bull pen for his pains .