The Laundry

In the corridor at the door leading into the dining room covered with a leather case, stands the prison pet. It is a beautiful, nickel-mounted Gatling gun. Its roll of rifle muzzles point toward the door, and if a mutiny occur while the prisoners are all in the dining room a single guard could with one hand guide the muzzle, while with the other by turning a crank he could fill each emptied barrel with a fresh cartridge from the hopper at the top. A hailstorm of bullets would sweep across the dining room so fast and so true that not a living human being would be left standing, and this all could be done in less time than it takes to tell it. There will be no mutiny while the "Pet" "holds the fort.".