"
"By Gad!" exclaimed the clergyman breathlessly, and with increasing
excitement, "then I feel I must tell you--what has been given to me in
confidence--that Sangree has in him an admixture of savage blood--of Red
Indian ancestry--"
"Let us stick to our supposition of a man as described," the doctor
stopped him calmly, "and let us imagine that he has in him this
admixture of savage blood; and further, that he is wholly unaware of his
dreadful physical and psychical infirmity; and that he suddenly finds
himself leading the primitive life together with the object of his
desires; with the result that the strain of the untamed wild-man in his
blood--"
"Red Indian, for instance," from Maloney.
"Red Indian, perfectly," agreed the doctor; "the result, I say, that
this savage strain in him is awakened and leaps into passionate life.
What then?"
He looked hard at Timothy Maloney, and the clergyman looked hard at him.
"The wild life such as you lead here on this island, for instance,
might quickly awaken his savage instincts--his buried instincts--and
with profoundly disquieting results.
Pages:
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185