I saw you from the window just as Mercer screamed.

Why did you stop for him ?" Mercer was getting up with the assistance of Sands.

He turned a bloated and unseeing face toward Kent and Carter.

He was blubbering and moaning, as though entreating for mercy in the fear that Kent had not finished with him.

Carter pulled Kent away.
"There's only one thing for me to do now," he said.