Then you and your nephew will also appear before the great council when the Englishman is tried again.

Still, it matters nothing to us whether you or Hernando Pereira shall fire the shot.

See you to it, as the Jews said to Judas who had betrayed the innocent Lord." Then he paused and went on, addressing Pereira: "Do you also refuse, Hernando Pereira?
Remember before you answer that if you do refuse we shall draw our own conclusions.

Remember, too, that the evidence which you have given, showing that this wicked Englishman plotted and caused the deaths of our brothers and of our wives and children, which we believe to be true evidence, shall be weighed and investigated word by word before the great council." "To give evidence is one thing, and to shoot the traitor and murderer another," said Pereira.

Then he added with an oath, or so vowed Hans: "Yet why should I, who know all this villain's guilt, refuse to carry out the sentence of the law on him?
Have no fear, commandant, the accursed Allan Quatermain shall not succeed in his attempt to escape to-morrow before the dawn." "So be it," said the commandant.