Whirling toward the door, he rained powerful kicks upon it.

He would get out, he must get out, at all hazards! Suddenly the woman began to scream, with harsh and piercing cries that seemed to rip the very atmosphere.
[Illustration: Aiming at the base of the skull she struck.] At the third scream, or the fourth, the key was turned and the door jerked open.
In its aperture, three men stood--the two who had been so long trailing Gabriel, and a policeman, burly, red-jowled, big-paunched.
Gabriel stared at them.

His mouth opened, then closed again without a word.

As well for a trapped animal to make explanations to the Indian hunter, as for him to tell these men the truth.

The truth?
_They_ knew the truth; and they were there to crucify him.