A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 110: what you’re looking at

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102 — A SERVANT OF SATAN. where the prisoners had spent the night, and reappeareda few moments later bearing the body of the murdered man. ~ Of course the convicts one and all denied any knowledge ~ as to how their comrade had come to his death, and as it ~ was impossible to discover which of the sixty prisoners had ~ been the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed, a report ~ was made to the governor stating that a fight had taken ql place among the newly arrived convicts during the night, in ~ the course of which one of their number had met his death. ~ To tell the truth, the affair attracted but little attention on — ' the part of the authorities. After all, 1t was buta convict the less. As, however, it was deemed necessary to take some notice of the matter, the ten prisoners who had the largest number of black marks against their name, and among whom was Frederick, were sentenced to undergo the — following punishment. Their hands were tightly secured ~ behind their backs and fastened to a chain attached to iron’ rings in the exterior wall of the building in which the mur- _ der had been committed. The chains were sufficiently — loose to enable them either to squat on the ground orto stand _ upright. But being unable to use their hands to convey — their miserable pittance of bread and water to their mouths, they were forced to bend their faces down to the ground ~ in order to seize the bread with their teeth and tolapupthe — water like dogs. 3 In defiance of all notions of humanity or decency they — were left bound in this cruel manner for seven days and — seven nights, exposed to the weather and unable to defend ~ themselves from the bites of the myriads of musquitoes and other aggressive insects. ) When, at the end of this week of indescribable torture, — they were released, five of their number, including Fred- — erick, were in such a state as to necessitate their being sent — to the hospital. Frederick, who possessed a wonderfully — strong constitution and powerful physique, soon recovered. 4 comicbooks.com