You knew, then, which was the poisoned dish.

The rajah has ordered your execution.

I offer you life, if you will tell me who it was that tempted you." The prisoner preserved a stolid silence.
"We had better proceed to torture him, at once," one of the rajah's officers said.
The man turned a little paler.

He knew well the horrible tortures which would, in such an instance, be inflicted to extort the names of those who had bribed him.
"I will say nothing," he said, firmly, "though you tear me limb from limb." "I have no intention of torturing you," Charlie said.

"A confession extorted by pain is as likely to be false as true, and even did you tell me one name, there might still be a dozen engaged in it who would remain unknown.