Rats came about her cell and she petted them and taught her cats to be kind to them.

Before she got the cats thoroughly drilled one of them bit a rat's paw.

Louise nursed the rat till it got well, then let it down by a string from her window.

It went back to its sewer, and, I suppose, told the other rats how kind Louise had been to it, for after that they came to her cell without fear.

Mother rats brought their young ones and placed them at her feet, as if to ask her protection for them.