Equipped with a Corellian JumpMaster 5000 christened the Punishing One, Dengar was a one-man judge, jury and executioner tracking down criminals of the New Order.
" Yes, Blanche, " he cried, " you are my executioner; you are killing me; I am in your way; you want to get rid of me; you are monster of hypocrisy. She is smiling! Do you know why she smiles, Felix" ?
As the grinning little man held out the pipe he was smoking, to explain how he timed the executioner, Carton was so sensible of a rising desire to strike the life out of him, that he turned away.
The terrified Queen was graceful in her final hours. Dressed in white, she was said to have apologized to her executioner for standing on his foot as she made her way to the guillotine.
His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.
The most detestable of all employments, that of public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better paid than any common trade whatever.