Saturday at
noon
Public report at Waddy was to the effect that every influence short of torture had been used in the effort to induce him to divulge the truth , and not a word had he spoken . His mother and Mrs. Hardy and Harry had all visited him in the cell , and had failed to persuade him to open his lips . His callousness in the presence of his poor mother 's distress was described in feeling terms as unworthy of the black and naked savage . All this was much nearer the truth than speculation at Waddy was wont to be ; and when Dick was restored to his home in the flesh on Saturday at noon and permitted to run at large again without let or hindrance , Waddy was amazed and indignant , and Waddy 's criticism of the methods of the police authorities was scathing in the extreme . The boy was driven home by the sergeant , the same who had been commissioned to quell the Great Goat Riot . ` He 's looking pulled down , ' said the trooper , delivering him into his mother 's arms . ` It 's the confinement .