"Listen to me—" Reich followed D’Courtney and stood over him. He began to shout incoherently. "This payoff’s been on the fire for years. And you want to rob me with a Judas kiss. Does murder turn the other cheek? If it does, embrace me, brother killer. Kiss death! Teach death love. Teach Godliness and shame and blood and—No. Wait. I—" He stopped short and shook his head like a bull trying to cast off a halter of delirium.