corridor, and asked him where those prisoners who had been

sentenced were kept, and to whom one had to apply for permission

to visit them. The usher told him that the condemned prisoners

were kept in different places, and that, until they received

their sentence in its final form, the permission to visit them

depended on the president. "I'll come and call you myself, and

take you to the president after the session. The president is not

even here at present. After the session! And now please come in;