" "Which animal?" "Monsieur of the garotte, Liane; recently the assassin of de Lorgnes; before that the ex-chauffeur of the Château de Montalais.

Viewing this hideous tableau, appreciating what it meantthat Popinot, forearmed with advice from a trusted quarter, had stationed himself outside the door to Monk's stateroom, to waylay and garotte the man whom he expected to emerge therefrom laden with the plunder of Monk's safeLanyard appreciated further that he had done Mr. Mussey a great wrong.

Everywhere houses surrounded, doors opened by artifice or burst open by force, porters deceived, sometimes garotted, men in disguise, men provided with ropes, men armed with axes, surprises in bed, nocturnal violence.

Strangling, thus carried out, was called garotting.

The pirates were defeated; Lopez was made prisoner, and died by the garotte, at Havana, on the 1st of September.