overcoming it, before resistance could begin. Nor did they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate. (f) It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all "hire and salary, not revenge." It was the weighing of money against life, the counting out of so many pieces of silver against so many ounces of blood.
(2) (a) An aged man, without an enemy in the world, in his own house, and in his own bed, is made the victim of a butcherly murder, for mere pay. The deed was executed with a degree of self-possession and steadiness equal to the wickedness with which it was planned. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers held him in their soft but strong embrace. (b) The assassin
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