"No, I admit that; but——"
"What?"
"While there is life there is hope."
"Not for such as I. Have I not killed this man, almost in self-defense, I may say?"
"I admit it."
"Well, if I live a few hours more they will seize me, flog me till I am in a dying condition, and then hang me. Why should I not die now?"
Harkaway could not see any valid reason why he should prolong his miserable and forfeited existence.
"You are right," he said. "It is clear that suicide in your case is an atonement, if not a virtue."
"Comrade," exclaimed Alfonso, "they say that those who are about to die see future events clearly."
"I have heard that," replied Jack.