Thus shall the outrages that are being perpetrated under your eyes be fully and finally avenged." As abruptly as he had leapt upon the plinth did he now leap down from it.

He had finished.

He had said all--perhaps more than all--that could have been said by the dead friend with whose voice he spoke.

But it was not their will that he should thus extinguish himself.

The thunder of their acclamations rose deafeningly upon the air.