Chapter 18
David grabbed her by the shoulders. “What are you talking about?”
She shook her head. “They came and took him. Arrested him. Accused him of thieving…”
“I’ll kill him.”
He was frozen inside. Frozen to the core. His bright, beautiful Jeremy crammed into some seething pit with the vilest that the human race had to offer.
“Where did they take him?”
“Newgate, but they will probably put him in the Session House on Newgate Street first whilst they wait to try him.”
Horror filled every part of David’s soul. Prisoners were penned in tiny cages no bigger than a dog’s kennel down in the rank, dark cellars of the session house, and at this time of year they would be freezing. He could only imagine the filth and degradation Jeremy would be forced to endure.
“The bastard,” he whispere
