Happily the handcuffs were kept out of sight.

One by one we ascended the steps, entered the narrow passage in the van, and huddled ourselves into the narrower boxes.

They were so small that no ordinary-sized man could sit upon the little bench at the back.

I was obliged to crouch on one ham diagonally, my shoulders stretching from corner to corner.

Half a dozen holes were bored through the floor, and there was a space between the side of the box and the roof of the van, which sloped away like an eave.