these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men-men, i tell you. but as i stood on this hillside, i foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land i would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
how insidious he could be, too, i was only to find out several months later and a thousand miles farther.
