Chapter 43

What did Cooke gain from this arrangement?

Joe still didn’t know, but Cooke’s family lived in Montreal and Joe guessed they were living well these days.

As for his own immunity, Joe suspected it would expire the day Dubois left this place. Thinking of that eminent day, he lost his appetite. What would he do without Dubois’s flame to warm his cell at night?

“Not like last night’s feast, is it?” Dubois stirred the cold soup with the tip of his spoon, looking dejectedly into it. “The food here makes me ill.”