Jurgis gets a visitor the next day a fellow cellmate named Jack Duane. You might call Duane a white-collar criminal. Basically, he's a con man. He and Jurgis get along very well, and Duane passes the time by telling him all about the different cons he has pulled. Duane seems out of place in this prison, where men who had to steal nickels and dimes to feed their families are being oppressed by those who are making millions of dollars off their misery.
When it is time for his court date, he sees Elzbieta and one of her children in the courtroom, but not Ona. He ends up getting sentenced to thirty days in prison. Stanislovas comes to visit him in the prison, and tells him that Ona is very sick, Marija has cut.....
