There's some chance of escaping from an enemy, but from a brother who has set himself to hound a brother to death, never.

Never mind.

Your money's safe now.

Have me hung as soon as you like; the sooner the better for me." Roger, stupefied and stung to the quick by these taunts, winced as though he and not the speaker were the miscreant.

He looked almost appealingly at his accuser, and tried to speak to justify himself, but the words refused to come.
Suddenly he seemed to detect in the prisoner's eye some new sinister purpose.
"Take care, Armstrong; take care!" he cried, and flung himself between the two.
It was not an instant too soon.