Are you ready to be a cold-blooded murderer also, or can we do anything to stop it ?" "What would you do ?" asked McMurdo abruptly.

"You would not inform ?" "God forbid!" cried Morris.

"Sure, the very thought would cost me my life." "That's well," said McMurdo.

"I'm thinking that you are a weak man and that you make too much of the matter." "Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer.

Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people.