9/23 Both may be equally guilty, equally desperate, but they are not the same men." "True, but I know not which is to be most feared." "I may be wrong," she insisted, "for I judge as a woman, yet I would feel safer with Sanchez. He cares not much for me, perhaps, yet enough so that I possess some power over him. The other does not--he merely desires with the passions of a brute. No appeal would reach him; he would laugh at tears and find pleasure in suffering. I do not quite believe this of Sanchez." "Perhaps not---the other may be the greater beast." "I know he is; the proof is in those horrid eyes. |