Do you hear, Gesius ?' I made him answer.

'It is well,' he continued.

'One thing more which you shall not forget, or'-- he looked at me threateningly--'The door of their cell--cell number V.on the same floor--this one, Gesius'-- he put his finger on the particular cell to impress my memory--'shall never be opened for any purpose, neither to let one in nor out, not even yourself.' 'But if they die ?' I asked.

'If they die,' he said, 'the cell shall be their tomb.

They were put there to die, and be lost.
The cell is leprous.