licate the niggers.
It'll all come in quite natural; you'll see, else! Fust thing, you know,
you'll see him running round and owling like a good un...'

'Don't!' said Davis. 'Don't talk of it!'

'Well, you ARE a juggins!' exclaimed Huish. 'What did you want? You
wanted to kill him, and tried to last night. You wanted to kill the 'ole
lot of them and tried to, and 'ere I show you 'ow; and because there's
some medicine in a bottle you kick up this fuss!'

'I suppose that's so,' said Davis. 'It don't seem someways reasonable,
only there it is.'

'It's the happlication of science, I suppose?' sneered Huish.

'I don't know what it is,' cried Davis, pacing the floor; 'it's there!
I draw the line at it. I can't put a finger to no such piggishness. It's
too damned hateful!'

'And I suppose it's all your fancy pynted it,' said Huish, 'w'en you
take a pistol and a bit o' lead, and copse a man's brains all over him?
No accountin' for tystes.'

'I'm not denying it,' said Davis, 'It's something here, inside of me.
It's foolishness; I dare say it's dam foolishness. I don't argue, I just
draw the line. Isn't there no other way?'

'Look for yourself,' said Huish. 'I ain't wedded to this, if you think I
am; I ain't ambitious; I don't make a point of playin' the lead; I offer
to, that's all, and if you can't show me better, by Gawd, I'm goin' to!'

'Then the risk!' cried Davis.

'If you ast me straight, I should say it was a case of seven to one and
no takers,' said Huish. 'But that's my look-out, ducky, and I'm gyme,
that's wot I am: gyme all through.'

The captain looked at him. Huish sat there, preening his sinister
vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage
and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a
lantern. Dismay and a kind of respect seized hold on Davis in his own
despite. Until that moment, he had seen the clerk always hanging
back, always listless, uninterested, and openly grumbling at a word of
anything to do; and now, by the touch of an enchanter's wand, he beheld
him sitting girt and resolved, and his face radiant. He had raised the
devil, he thought; and asked who was to control him? and his spirits
quailed.

'Look as long as you like,' Huish was going on. 'You don't see any green
in my eye! I ain't afryde of Attwater, I ain't afryde of you, and I
ain't afryde of words. You want to kill people, that's wot YOU want; but
you want to do it in kid gloves, and i