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It was in Burma, a morning of the rains.
The morning was sodden.

A sicklys light was slanting over the walls into the jail yard.
The light was like yellow tinfoil.
The walls were high.

We were waiting outside the condemned cells.
The cells were a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.

Each cell measured about ten feet by ten.
Each cell was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water.

In some of them men were squatting at the inner bars.
The men were brown.
The men were silent.
The men were squatting with their blankets draped round them.

These were the condemned men.
They were due to be hanged within the next week or two.

One prisoner had been brought out of his cell.
He was a Hindu.
He was a puny wisp of a man.
He was a man with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes.

He had a moustache, absurdly too big

It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains.

A sicklys light like yellow tinfoil was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard.

We were waiting outside the condemned cells, which were a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.

Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water.

In some of them the brown and silent men were squatting at the inner bars with their blankets draped round them.

These were the condemned men who were due to be hanged within the next week or two.

One prisoner, a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes, had been brought out of his cell.

He had a thick and sprouting moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films.

Six tall Indian warders were guarding him, getting him ready for the gallows.