Chapter Nine
Cages
They weren’t really cages at all, but knock-offs from the medieval torture devices that wrapped the victim in metal straps and hung them in an upright position. Felons were traditionally hung up outside the castle or manor house and allowed to starve while the birds and animals nibbled at their flesh. Those enclosed in such devices seldom escaped and it was a long and painful death, enhanced by the inability of the captive to move anything except perhaps toes and fingers. Creative sadists of the time put an end to the finger wagging and toe tapping by simply cutting these appendages off with shears, once the prisoners were in the cage.
Bill and Gus were now enjoying the benefits of such accommodations, but their fingers and toes were still intact. There were, as there
