But I got tired of it all, after a time: my eyes began slowly to open, and my heart--at least, what little of that article I ever had--turned sick with horror within me at what I had done.

The awful things I saw, the fearful deeds that were perpetrated, would curdle your very blood with horror, were I to relate them.

You have seen a specimen yourself, in the cold-blooded murder of that wretch half an hour ago; and his is not the only life crying for vengeance on these men.

The slightest violation of their oath was punished, and the doom of traitors and informers was instant death, whether male or female.

The sham trials and executions always took place in presence of the whole court, to strike a salutary terror into them, and never occurred but once a week, when the whole band regularly met.