Prison monotony and rigid solitary confinement, in the end, proved too much for the gitl—Fumiko was only 22—~and, one day, she asked the prison authorities for some work. Hitherto, she had resolutely refused to do any work. She was put fang secreted a portion Is." Cutting off her bar with a rusty knife, she wove her tresses with the flax threads she had hidden into a rope and, one bright ning Inst week when the warder 1¢d the door of her cell, he dised that she had hanged herself. the meantime, radicals took ad.
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