Come, Inez, you are quick at this game.

How can we best hold him to his word ?" "Dead, I think," broke in Bernaldez, who knew his danger as the partner and relative of Castell, and the nominal owner of the ship _Margaret_ in which it was purposed that he should escape.

"We know all that he can tell, and if we let him go he will betray us soon or late.

Kill him out of the way, I say, and burn his body in the oven." Now Henriques fell upon his knees, and with groans and tears began to implore mercy.
"Why do you complain so ?" asked Inez, watching him with reflective eyes.
"The end would be much gentler than that which you righteous folk mete out to many more honest men, yes, and women too.

For my part, I think that the Senor Bernaldez gives good counsel.