While there is life there is hope, there is more than hope.

There is certainty." "Is there ?" Blondel cried; he extended a lean hand, shaking with vindictive passion.

"Is there?
Go and look in your casket, fool! Go and look in your steel box!" he hissed.

"Go! And see if it be not too late!" For a moment Basterga peered at him, his brow contracted, his eyes screwed up.

The blow was unexpected.