'But before I tell it, let me say a word.
You seem to have won, wicked murderer as you are, but perhaps the game is not yet played.

Your fears may still come true.

I am dead, but my vengeance may yet live on, for I leave it to the Hand in which I should have left it at first.

You may live some years longer, but do you think that you shall escape?
One day you will die as surely as I must die to-night, and what then, de Garcia ?' 'A truce, I pray you,' he said with a sneer.

'Surely you have not been consecrated priest.