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Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
page 68 of 343 (19%)
count much--he is merely a stupid, foolish little tool, and so I
shall not kill him so long as I permit you to live. Before I leave
you two alive in this room you will have done two things. The
first will be to write a full confession of your connection with
tonight's plot--and sign it.

"The second will be to promise me upon pain of death that you
will permit no word of this affair to get into the newspapers. If
you do not do both, neither of you will be alive when I pass next
through that doorway. Do you understand?" And, without waiting
for a reply: "Make haste; there is ink before you, and paper and
a pen."

Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how
little he feared Tarzan's threats. An instant later he felt the
ape-man's steel fingers at his throat, and Paulvitch, who attempted
to dodge them and reach the door, was lifted completely off the
floor, and hurled senseless into a corner. When Rokoff commenced
to blacken about the face Tarzan released his hold and shoved the
fellow back into his chair. After a moment of coughing Rokoff
sat sullenly glaring at the man standing opposite him. Presently
Paulvitch came to himself, and limped painfully back to his chair
at Tarzan's command.

"Now write," said the ape-man. "If it is necessary to handle you
again I shall not be so lenient."

Rokoff picked up a pen and commenced to write.

"See that you omit no detail, and that you mention every name,"
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