Is there anybody you want killed ?" "No, no, you young savage! You are to shoot only in self-defense, or in defense of young Lennox whom you are to protect.

Bear that in mind." "Very well, Mynheer.

Your orders are law to me." Peter went out of the room and slid away in the darkness.

Mynheer Jacobus Huysman watched his departure and sighed.

He was a good man, averse to violence and bloodshed, and he murmured: "The world iss in a fever.