"You know what you have to do! In, and strip them! Do you hear?
And if you leave as much as a knife----" "I won't! I daren't!" Louis screamed.

And grovelling on his face on the leads he clung to whatever offered itself.
But men who have just passed through a life and death struggle, are hard.

"You won't ?" Marcadel answered, applying his boot brutally, but without effect.

"You will! Or you will feel my pike between your ribs! In! In, my lad!" A scream answered each repetition of the word, and proved that the threat was no empty one.

Claude might have intervened, but he remembered Anne and the humiliations she had suffered in this craven's presence.
"In!" Marcadel repeated a third time.