In that case, your lives might be spared, although not mine.
"So it was laid upon me to discover where you were, and to bring you back if possible.

And on the polished table in that cave in which you saw Benares and Bombay and London and New York, I watched you swim down the river until you were rescued by the elephants.
"So then I went to meet you and bring you back." "What if we had refused ?" "That elephant you rode--hah! One word from me, and the mob would have blamed you for the damage.

They would have pulled you from the elephant and beaten you to death.

Such processes are very simple to any one who understands mob-passions.

Just a word--just a hint--and the rest is inevitable." "But you say you are under sentence of death.