Think again.' 'I know nothing of this treasure, general.' 'Yet memory sometimes wakens, traitor.

I have said that you shall die if yours should fail you, and so you shall to be sure.

But death is not always swift.

There are means, doubtless you who have lived in Spain have heard of them,' and he arched his brows and glared at me meaningly, 'by which a man may die and yet live for many weeks.

Now, loth as I am to do it, it seems that if your memory still sleeps, I must find some such means to rouse it--before you die.' 'I am in your power, general,' I answered.