He was then put thrice to the torture, that he might be forced to reveal his accomplices.

It did not seem in human power for one man to accomplish such a deed of darkness without confederates.

Bertrand had none, however, and could denounce none.

A frantic sentence was then devised as a feeble punishment for so much wickedness.

He was dragged on a hurdle, with his mouth closed with an iron gag, to the market-place.
Here his right hand and foot were burned and twisted off between two red-hot irons.