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was faced with a catastrophe which he could no longer avoid save by submitting absolutely. In less than a minute, he would have spoken or he would be dead.
Once again Patrice fixed his eyes on Coralie, ready to interfere should he perceive in her any other feeling than one of passive terror. But her attitude did not change. She was therefore accepting the worst, it appeared, even though this meant her husband's death; and Patrice held his hand accordingly.
"Are we all agreed?" Bournef asked, turning to his accomplices.
"Quite," said one of them.
"Do you take your share of the responsibility?"
"We do."
Bournef brought his hands together and crossed them, which had the result of knotting the cord round Essar?s' neck. Then he pulled slightly, so as to make the pressure felt, and asked, unemotionally:
"Yes or no?"
"Yes."
There was a murmur of satisfaction. The accomplices heaved a breath; and Bournef nodded his head with an air of approval:
"Ah, so you accept! It was high time: I doubt if any one was ever nearer death than you were, Essar?s." Retaining his hold of the cord, he continued, "Very well. You will speak. But I know you; and your answer surprises me, for I told the colonel that not even the certainty of death would make you confess your secret. Am I wrong?"
"No," replied Essar?s. "Neither death nor torture."
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