Do your duty and fear nothing.

Do it not, pause, hesitate, breathe but a syllable of that which I have told you, and you will have all to fear.

All!" He saw too late that it was he himself who had all to fear; that in taking the lad before him into his confidence, he had placed himself in the hands of a craven.

But he had done it.

He had gone too far, moved by the foolish impulse of the moment, to retreat.