"I do not undertake to do so! So at least I shall escape the hypocrite! It is in the nature of man to put down other kings and be king himself!" "Aye so?
The prime difficulty in that is that the others, too, are immortal." Glenfernie rising, his great frame seemed to fill the little room.

"Sooner may the Kelpie's Pool sink into the earth than I forego to give again to you what you have given! What is now all my wish?
It is to seem to you, here and hereafter, the avenger of blood and fraud! Remember me so!" He stood looking at the sometime friend with a dark and working face.
Then, abruptly turning, he went away.

The door of the small room closed behind him.

Ian heard the bolt driven.
The night went leadenly by.

At last he slept, and was waked by trumpets blowing.