No one was there beside yourself and the dying man.

Your first business was to search his vestments, and take away his keys." "Ha!" exclaimed Judith, starting.
"While securing his keys," pursued Solomon Eagle, "the owner awakened, and uttered a low, but angry remonstrance.

Better he had been silent.
Dipping a napkin in an ewer of water that stood beside him, you held the wet cloth over his face, and did not remove it till life was extinct.
All this I saw." "But you will not reveal it," said Judith, tremblingly.
"I will not," replied Solomon Eagle, "for the reasons I have just stated; namely, that I look upon you as one of the scourges appointed by Heaven." "And so I am," rejoined Judith, with impious exultation; "it is my mission to destroy and pillage, and I will fulfil it." "Take heed you do not exceed it," replied Solomon Eagle.

"Lift a finger against either of these young persons, and I will reveal all.

Yes," he continued, menacingly, "I will disclose such dreadful things against you, that you will assuredly be adjudged to a gibbet higher than the highest tower of this proud fane." "I defy you, wretch!" retorted Judith.