And so they dragged Lois away from the congregation of
Christians to the gaol, to await her trial. I say 'dragged her,'
because, although she was docile enough to have followed them
whither they would, she was now so faint as to require extraneous
force — poor Lois! who should have been carried and tended lovingly
in her state of exhaustion, but, instead, was so detested by the
multitude, who looked upon her as an accomplice of Satan in all his
evil doings, that they cared no more how they treated her than a
careless boy minds how he handles the toad that he is going to
throw over the wall.
When Lois came to her full senses, she found herself lying on a
short hard bed in a dark square room, which she at once knew must
be a part of the city gaol. It was about eight feet square,
