Lanyard met him halfway, caught him in the middle of his bound, wound wiry arms round the man and held him helpless.
His voice rang clear above the crackle of flames:
“Victor! have you forgotten how you threatened one night, twenty years ago, to follow me to the very gates of Hell, and what I promised you—that, if you did, I’d push you inside? Or did you think I would forget?”
He cast the man from him, backward, down into the hungry maw of that inferno....