Arnaux 
the watchful jailer began the second part of 
his scheme. He introduced a coy young lady 
Pigeon. But it did not seem to answer; Ar- 
naux was not even civil to her. After a time the 
jailer removed the female, and Arnaux was left 
in solitary confinement for a month. Now a 
different female was brought in, but with no 
better luck; and thus it went on—for a year 
different charmers were introduced. Arnaux 
either violently repelled them or was scornfully 
indifferent, and at times the old longing to get 
away, came back with twofold power, so that 
he darted up and down the wire front or 
dashed with all his force against it. 
When the storied feathers of his wings be- 
gan their annual moult, his jailer saved them 
as precious things, and as each new feather 
came he reproduced on it the record of its 
owner’s fame. 
Two years went slowly by, and the jailer 
had put Arnaux in a new loft and brought in 
another lady Pigeon. By chance she closely 
resembled the faithless one at home. Arnaux 
actually heeded the newcomer. Once the 
jailer thought he saw his famous prisoner pay- 
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