“I would.”
“Those rascals are not so brave as you.”
“At any rate, Cook has put his head in the lion’s jaw.”
“What do you propose to do with him?” asked Billy.
“That is a strange question.”
“Why strange?”
“Have you not heard me affirm, over and over again, that I would punish with death those who, with sacrilegious hand, handled the Eye of Jobu?” asked the heathen priest.
“Then you mean to have Cook killed?”
“Most certainly.”
Barry appeared disgusted.