Stole some bread, to begin with, and then attempted to escape prison. But it is the parole-breaking for which he seeks to arrest me now.

[It's funny. A lifetime of secrets, and yet only a week here has made it so much easier to tell.]

In France, you see, ex-convicts are meant to carry papers declaring their status, which they present wherever they go. I imagine you know how that ended for me. [It's sort of right there in the pamphlet.]