“Maybe they’re escorting him away from the house,” Emile replied with an excited look in his eyes.

“This isn’t the time for joking,” Elliot replied. “How can they have that effect on him? They don’t even have weapons on them.”

“They want to watch the scene that’s all, I think,” Emile commented.

“You stole our wealth as well as our youth because we were gullible, but now we’ve wizened up,” the tall man said, looking straight into Urella’s ...