"I dare not come within reach of his arms, and he knows that so long as his resistance is passive I cannot shoot him." "There must be some way," she contended.

"Let me think." "There is one way," I said grimly.
She waited.
I picked up a seal-club.
"It won't kill him," I said.

"And before he could recover I'd have him bound hard and fast." She shook her head with a shudder.

"No, not that.

There must be some less brutal way.