"But it is only a few hours since you were giving witness against me."

"That is true; but bless you, sir, there has been a great change in
matters since that."

"So I thought, by the movements I observed, though I did not understand
them."

"Hist! speak low, sir," said the other, "and while I am talking to you,
just let me, at the same time, be filing off these steel ornaments upon
your wrists!"

"File them off? Well, then, you must, indeed, be a friend," said the
prisoner.

"Leave me to prove that. Sit here, so the light will fall on them, with
your back this way, that will keep the light from showing between decks.
So, that is it."

"But what was it made your voice and the sound of your name affect me so
this morning? I could not divest myself of the feeling that, I had heard
it somewhere before."

"Heard it? bless you, sir, I rather think you have heard it before,"
said the fellow, as he worked industriously with his file upon the
handcuffs.

"Well, where, and when; and under what circumstances?" asked the
prisoner, curiously.