Let us have the issue before us in black and white.

Engleton, are you well enough to understand what I say ?" "Perfectly," Engleton answered.

"Go on." "Will you sign a retraction of your charges against us, and pledge your word of honour never to repeat them, or to make any complaint, formal or otherwise, as to your detention here." "I'm d----d if I will!" Engleton answered.
"Consider what your refusal means first," Forrest said.

"Open the passage door, Cecil." Cecil pushed it back, and a little breath of the noxious odour stole into the room.
"You either make us that promise, Engleton," he said, "or as sure as I'm standing here, we'll drag you both down that passage, right to the end, and throw you into the sea." "And hang for it afterwards," Engleton said, with a sneer.
"Not we," Forrest declared.

"The currents down there are strange ones, and it would be many weeks before your bodies were recovered.