Crossword-Solution: ARCHFIEND 9 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Once again had Dejah Thoris fallen into the clutches of that archfiend, Thurid, the black dator of the First Born.

The clerical opponents of Tissot insisted that the non-effect of the holy water upon the demons proved nothing save the extraordinary cunning of Satan; that the archfiend wished it to be thought that he does not exist, and so overcame his repugnance to holy water, gulping it down in order to conceal his presence.

Had I been alone in the world--had Madeline and Lester not been to me what they were, I might have avowed my deed and my motives--I might have spoken out to the hearts of men--I might have poured forth the gloomy tale of reasonings and of temptings, in which we lose sense, and become the archfiend's tools! But while their eyes were on me; while their lives and hearts were set on my acquittal, my struggle against truth was less for myself than them.

Had I been alone in the world--had Madeline and Lester not been to me what they were, I might have avowed my deed and my motives--I might have spoken out to the hearts of men--I might have poured forth the gloomy tale of reasonings and of temptings, in which we lose sense, and become the archfiend’s tools! But while their eyes were on me; while their lives and hearts were set on my acquittal, my struggle against truth was less for myself than them.

Under the title of "The Making of a Monster," the reporter attempts to give "something of the personality of the archfiend, Charles." Giving his imagination full vent the writer says: It is only natural that the deepest interest should attach to the personality of Robert Charles.