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Large yellow Cswere marked in a prominent place upon each article ofclothing, though this was not necessary, the outfit itselfbespoke a prisoner as surely as if it had been patternedwith arrows. Horizontal bars were fastenedto these posts, each about two feet apart, and it wasto these that the person to be flogged was secured. ' He looked at his patrtner, theyounger Albert Popjoy, whose expression seemed doubtful. 'It be blank paper what's got nowt writ onnit!'Ikey chuckled.

Here Billy would stand before the beak, hisdark eyes glazed over as though he were in some distantplace of his imagining. To inform on them would beto indict himself as surely as if he had been caught with thebill paper in his possession. 'Them's well-coopered barrels if I say soelf,' he remarked. it was, Iar it, my dear!'/ell, then you will have no qualms about signing theMary replied calmly.