"Well, how do you like dying by inches?"
"This was cowardly of you, Mason," said Old King Brady, bitterly.
"It's my way of gaining revenge."
"Why don't you give us a fair show to fight for our lives?"
"Because you are so dangerous you might beat me."
"Help us out of here, and act like a man."
"I won't. See all the harm you've done me. In the first place, you've cheated me out of a fortune. In the second place, you prevented me from getting the girl I loved. In short, you've baffled me at every turn, after I made the most elaborate preparations to succeed."
"We did our duty."
"Oh, that be hanged! You'd kill me to do your duty, and I'm justified in ridding myself of such enemies as you two are."
"If you hadn't done wrong you would not have had us after you."