"No one knows except myself. They were masked."
"Then, if François is dead, it's all up with you."
Vorski took time to think. The argument allowed of no debate. He put a question in his turn:
"Well, what do you offer me?"
"Your liberty."
"And with it?"
"Nothing."
"Yes, the God-Stone."
"Never!"
Don Luis shouted the word, accompanying it with a vehement gesture of the hand, and he explained: