What if I can save your life, Mr Storekeeper?
You are trussed up like a fowl, and can do nothing.

I am the only man alive who can help you.

I am willing to do it, too--on my own terms.' I did not wait to hear those terms, for I had a shrewd guess what they would be.

My hatred of Henriques rose and choked me.

I saw murder and trickery in his mean eyes and cruel mouth.