"Look here! Could any man resist the temptation to use it when he was endowed by Nature with the power to do this ?" His features seemed to writhe and knot and assume in as many moments a dozen different aspects.

"I've had the knack of doing that since the hour I could breathe.

Could any man 'go straight' with a fateful gift like that if the laws of Nature said that he should not ?" "And do they say that ?" "That's what I want you to tell me--that's why I have requested this interview.

I want you to examine me, Sir Horace, to put me through those tests you use to determine the state of mind of the mentally fit and mentally unfit; I want to know if it is my fault that I am what I am, and if it is myself I have to fight in future, or the devil that lives within me.

I'm tired of wallowing in the mire.