ing in chains, or bound to pos Most of them were shown La the hands of burly and' sadist guards. One we noted wearing feangue (a portable but very uncom= ortable edition of the" Western stocks"), while another, whose fingers ind toes) were "supposed to be cut off, was suspended in a, horizontal position with arms and feet jerked backward so. that the wrists "and ankles could be tied together by a single rope swinging from a galiows—harrowing sight. Yot another: Temarkable to relate, was spread Jenzled toa rude eross, though the hitched of fastening was by cords othe: than by spikes.
The onlookers gazed at these Jrorments with a shuddering sympathy: quite consonant with that engendered by the sight of real human beings in ike plight; for were these no representations of what might occur to leach and every one of them when their sins rose up in accusation after death? As T glimpsed the fascinated
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