Chapter 20 CRUELTY BECOMES UNBEARABLE.

"That's enough. I'll save the extra lashes until he is in a condition to feel them. Take him back to his dungeon."

It was General Surgoff who spoke. He looked down upon the prostrate form of Jack, who, shirt again stripped from his shoulders, had fallen beneath the terrible blows of the lash in his second whipping.

It was at the tenth blow th