Chapter 18
Edwin Stewart could not recall whether he’d been inside the holding jail the day Rob McDuff was brought in. And he trusted no one—not even the men he trusted with his most important tasks—to reveal his memory gaps by asking about it.
What he did know the second he walked through the door was conditions had deteriorated considerably since the last time he could remember.
As a much younger man, a patrol officer who had neither the standing nor the rank to refuse the tasks, he’d brought men here more than enough times to remember.
He contemplated making his favorite errand runner and driver for the day accompany him inside, just to give the boy a taste of what he’d soon be sending men to suffer.
But Constable Corwy might be best held in reserve in case Edwin ran into difficult
