I say that it is my secret." "Then, Oro, if you could do what you threaten, you would drown hundreds of millions of people." "If I could do! If I could do!" he exclaimed, glaring at Bickley.

"Well, tomorrow you shall see what I can do.

Oh! why do I grow angry with this fool?
For the rest, yes, they must drown.

What does it matter?
Their end will be swift; some few minutes of terror, that is all, and in one short century every one of them would have been dead." An expression of horror gathered on Bastin's face.
"Do you really mean to murder hundreds of millions of people ?" he asked, in a thick, slow voice.
"I have said that I intend to send them to that heaven or that hell of which you are so fond of talking, Preacher, somewhat more quickly than otherwise they would have found their way thither.

They have disappointed me, they have failed; therefore, let them go and make room for others who will succeed." "Then you are a greater assassin than any that the world has bred, or than all of them put together.