The prison was a small building, which in peacetime did not have many inmates.
It was built surrounding a courtyard in the middle where he was carried to find the Governor and Denzil already there, seated on a platform against one side of it, which had an iron railing in front of it.
On Denzil’s instructions the soldiers set Conrad down on the platform beside them and, while they did so, the Governor was in deep conversation with a man whose uniform proclaimed him to be a prison Officer.
Besides the soldiers who had carried Conrad, there were four others armed with muskets standing on either side of the platform.
As Conrad stared out onto a patch of beaten-down sand, he wondered what exactly was about to happen.
Then suddenly there was the baying of bloodhounds and, when the heavy doo
