"Dead! And he's carried his secret with him to his grave!" "Never!" "But he has. Look! His jaw has dropped. Can't you see the change, man!" "Then he's carried out his threat after all!" "By Heaven, he has! We've been fools, Reggie-utter idiots!" I whispered. "So it seems. I confess that I fully expected he'd tell us the truth when he knew that the end had really come." "Ah! you didn't know him as I did," I remarked bitterly. "He had a will of iron and a nerve of steel."