I preferred to keep awake by continuing to question him.
"And d'you mean that those devils will deliberately torture you to death after you surrender voluntarily ?" I asked.
"They are not devils," he answered solemnly.
"But they'll torture you ?" "What is called torture can hardly fail to accompany the process they will put me through--especially if I am to be honored as I hope.

For a long time we have sought to make one experiment for which no suitable subject could be found.

For centuries it has been believed that a certain scientific step is possible; but the subject on whom the experiment is tried must be one who knows all our secrets and well understands the manipulation of vibrations of the atmosphere.

It is seldom that such an one has to be sentenced to death.

And it is one of our laws that death shall never be imposed on any one not deserving of it.