22/38 You are in my power." "I would die rather than make a false accusation." "Listen to me," the Jew said sternly. "You are weak now, too weak to suffer much. This day week I will return, and then you had best change your mind, and sign a document I shall bring with me, with the full particulars of the plot to murder the king, and the names of those concerned in it. I shall take it to the proper authorities, and obtain a promise that your life shall be spared, on condition of your giving evidence against these persons." "I would never sign such a villainous document," Charlie said. |