Be silent, Dick, for this wretch makes confession and his time is short.

Spare the tool and save your wrath for him who wielded it.

Go now and fetch David Day that he may witness also." So Dick went, and Nicholas continued his tale, throwing light into many a dark place, though there was little more that Hugh thought worthy of record.
Presently David came and started back in horror at the sight of that yellow tortured face set upon a living skeleton.

Then the writing was read and Nicholas, held up by Dick, set his signature with a trembling hand to this his confession of the truth.

This done they signed as witnesses, all three of them.
Now Hugh, whose pity was stirred, wished to move Nicholas and lay him on a bed in some chamber, and if they could, find someone to watch him till the end.