"Will you give in?"
"I want to compromise."
"That I'll never do!"
"I've got a great inducement—"
"You can make none to me."
"Come here, and you'll see."
A suspicion of treachery flashed over Jack's mind.
He turned to his companions, and said in low tones:
"We want him dead or alive. Fire at him!"
Before Jack's friends could obey, a grating sound was heard above the Terror, and the inventor glanced upward.