ABSTRACT

And the resolution so frankly communicated, Rafferty proved he was quite prepared to carry into effect. I believed my last moment to have arrived, when, looking mournfully round, I saw that all concurred in what he was about to do, and Lean Iniquity’s hungry countenance, seemed illuminated with ferocious hope – springing, not merely from raging hunger, but from lust for vengeance, and unquenchable avarice, both of which, as he expected, would be gratified by my death.