"Well, the jig's up."

The fettered geezer shook his head and sighed. "I guess you'll be getting the Willbreaker."

"Willbreaker? What's that?" Frank asked.

"To bring the new inmates down a peg, they would all be beaten up their first day in... though the severity depends on what you can offer the jailer."

The geezer shook his head and sighed-Frank would definitely be getting a world of pain since he was not paying off the jailer.

Still, he advised, "Look, if you can't pay him off and have nothing of value, you just have to endure the stick and be as agreeable as possible. That way, the jailer just might take it easy on you."

"Exactly." A skinny inmate sighed in agreement. "I had nothing to offer when I was brought here, so I had to suffer fifty strikes. Fortunately, I was healthy enough to recover after two weeks' worth of lying down." He then looked pointedly at Frank. "But judging from your small frame, it'd take you a month to recover."

"Yeah, but surviving is better than nothing."

as Frank was about to

would only be spared if they knew about

for Frank, who came in without valuables and had no one

at least fifty

he were lucky, he would need just a couple of weeks to recover like the

looking at disability

"All of you, quiet!"

hear the discussion the closer he moved to

bars with his baton grumpily, he looked around and asked, "I heard there's a new face. Where

flunkies hurried to him, bowing politely

they headed straight

lapdogs." Frank vaguely heard Scarface swearing under his

noticed upon a closer look that Scarface

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