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man-eating tiger! They say you can harm no
more. I am not so sure of that; you had
better not go too near him lest he might
strike again. I have seen him laugh like that
before. I know what that laugh means. It
means that somebody is going to die.”
The man’s whole body stiffened in a
frightful spasm, but his eyes remained lucid
and calm, and the attack was soon over.
“Well, maybe it is only I who am going
to die this time,” he went on in a fearful
voice. “Your impassible eyes will have to
witness for once the death of a guilty man.”
He lay silent for awhile, looking straight
at his officer.
“But maybe it was not you alone who
led us on; maybe you, too, brave as you
were, lived in fear of somebody, somebody
more strong, more cruel even than you!
Maybe you were only the tool in a stronger
hand than yours, as we were the
blood-dripping tools in your hands. Whose hand
was it? Colonels, Generals, Field-Marshals,
Princes, Kings, and You! Emperor! To
hell with you all for what you have made
us do! You are sending me there now—I
know it well—as you have sent thousands of
your men there before. I die without fear,
for death can have no new terror to spring
upon me that life has not revealed to me
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