"I do not wish to alarm these ladies, but I am bound in honour to tell you what I know." "Ah then," said St.George, his narrowed eyes meeting those of the prince, "since the taking of life is unknown to you in Yaque, will you explain how it was that your servant adopted such unerring means to take the life of Miss Holland?
And why ?" "My servant," said the prince readily, "belongs to the lahnas or former serfs of the island.

Upon her people, now the owners of rich lands, the tax will fall heavily.

Crazed by what she considers her people's wrongs following upon the coming of the stranger sovereign, the poor creature must have developed the primitive instincts of your race.

Before coming to this country my servant had never heard of murder save as a superseded custom of antiquity, like the crucifying of lions.

Her discovery of your daily practice of murder, and of murder practised as a cure for crime--" "Sir," began the lawyer imposingly.
"-- wakened in her the primitive instincts of humanity, and her instinct took the deplorable and fanatic form of your own courts," finished the prince.