The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 06, June 1891 / An Illustrated Monthly

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Edited by Geo. Newnes
Vol. I
JUNE
London: BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND 1891
Title Page and Table of Contents Added by Transcriber
MY SON, BE OF GOOD CHEER!
( A Torture by Hope. )

From the French of Villiers de l'isle-Adam.
Below the vaults of the Official of Saragossa one nightfall long ago, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, sixth Prior of the Dominicans of Segovia, third Grand Inquisitor of Spain—followed by a fra redemptor (master-torturer), and preceded by two familiars of the Holy Office holding lanterns—descended towards a secret dungeon. The lock of a massive door creaked; they entered a stifling in pace , where the little light that came from above revealed an instrument of torture blackened with blood, a chafing-dish, and a pitcher. Fastened to the wall by heavy iron rings, on a mass of filthy straw, secured by fetters, an iron circlet about his neck, sat a man in rags: it was impossible to guess at his age.