‘No?’
‘No!’
‘What would you, then?’
‘I would have the life of Monteagle.’
‘Ah! would you, then, again commit murder?’
‘Hold!’ said Blodget; ‘mention not my former crime; I cannot think of it without horror.’
‘And yet you can contemplate another deed equally as sanguinary?’
‘Yes, the death of the detested Monteagle I can contemplate, coolly contemplate; and I shall never rest satisfied until it is accomplished.’
‘And would you dare to perpetrate it yourself?’ asked Jenkins.
‘I dare,’ answered Blodget; ‘were he to cross my path; but were I to follow him to the Mission, or wherever he may be, I should in all probability be discovered, and taken prisoner, and then all my schemes would at once be frustrated. If any one would undertake to commit the crime, I would not fail to reward them handsomely.’