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The police were not over generous to their recaptured prisoner. His confinement was purely solitary, and all his meals consisted of bread and skilly. Jan, however, was not cast down by the treatment he received, because he did not believe that he could be very long detained. He had just finished his uninviting lunch when the door of his cell was thrown open and the inspector, accompanied by Mr. Harold Keeling, appeared at the threshold.
The beauty solicitor was the last person in the world whom Jan expected to visit him. He looked surprised, but nodded civilly.