They have paid their money--or rather their time, and they have been cheated of the one supreme thrill." "Imprisonment for life seems terrible enough," Lenora whispered, shuddering.
"Can't see the sense of keeping such a man alive myself," Quest declared, with purposeful brutality.

"It was a cruel murder, fiendishly committed." Lenora shivered.

Quest laid his fingers for a moment upon her wrist.

His voice, though still firm, became almost kind.
"Never be afraid, Lenora," he said, "to admit the truth.

Come, we have finished with Macdougal now.