The next morning, I fainted in attempting to rise, and was obliged to go down in my night-dress and shawls to call the women out. I should have told the Master that day that I could rise no longer to call the women out, only that I heard that Mrs. Hardhack wished to go out that night, to return at seven the next morning. If I refused to get up, she would be obliged to stay at home to do that duty. I thought I would heap one coal of kindness on her head, so I told her I would try to get through with it one more morning. She accepted the favor; but it was like casting pearls before swine--she did not thank me. As soon as she returned the next morning, I wrote the Master a note, saying I could rise no longer to call the women out, and I hoped he would find some one to relieve me of all duty as soon as possible. He took no notice of my note till afternoon; then I heard him, in his measured tread, stalking along the prison floor. The dinner was out of the way; nearly all of the work attended to for the day. The time I had spent from morning till afternoon was so much gained for which he did not pay. "You are not willing to get up and unlock any longer in the morning, you say?" "I cannot, sir; I am too ill." "Then we don't want you here any longer," was the gentlemanly response. "I am happy to be relieved of my duties here." "You may go now, the sooner the better," was his gentle reply. "Yes, sir; I will leave directly." I called my maid, packed my trunk, and made all haste to depart. I made my adieus as brief as possible. My women, with one exception, were crying and lamenting my departure, and I truly regretted to leave the poor wretches in such merciless care. "I shall spend the rest of my time in solitary," said O'Brien. "I shall get locked up the first thing," said Lissett. "I shall try to get into the shop," said Allen. "I never can stand it here after ye." "My heart is as black after ye as that stove," sobbed McMullins. It was many a day and night, after I went out from that prison, before the sights and sounds that I saw and heard there left my mental sight and hearing. I thought as I went away, I will go from door to door through this broad Commonwealth, state what I have learned of woman's condition in prison, and beseech every other woman to help open the doors of her ignorance, and degradation, to the light of the knowledge which will lead to reformation. Every one who has the cause of humanity at heart will echo the cry,--open the doors of our prisons, as the doors of other public institutions are thrown open, so that those who support may have an opportunity to inspect them. It is the right of every tax-payer to know what is done within our prison walls at all times. It is the duty of every Christian man to make himself acquainted with the moral bearing of the discipline which obtains within them.