"It was their wish."
"Do you mean that it is so no longer?"
"I cannot imagine it being their wish any longer."
"Why?"
"Because you murdered the two envoys they sent," said the priest, beginning suddenly to shake all over with uncontrollable nervous excitement.
"Have you any reason for saying that?"
"I know what I would do myself under such circumstances."
"And that is——"
The priest straightened himself, and seized the rail before him to steady himself.
"I would wipe out of existence every soul that was concerned in those murders. I would have no more civilized dealings with savages."