Why not speak out on the point, as you glory in saying everything ?" Salvat, however, had suddenly calmed down, giving only cautious monosyllabic replies.

"Well, seek for whatever you like if you don't believe me," he now answered.

"I made my bomb by myself, and under circumstances which I've already related a score of times.

You surely don't expect me to reveal names and compromise comrades ?" From this declaration he would not depart.

It was only towards the end of the interrogatory that irresistible emotion overcame him on the judge again referring to the unhappy victim of his crime, the little errand girl, so pretty and fair and gentle, whom ferocious destiny had brought to the spot to meet such an awful death.