With an oath he flung the cup and plate upon the ground.

"Do you see that woman there ?" He pointed to Susannah.

"I took the food for her, for she had died without it.

Yesterday devils like your husband shot her child in her arms and her husband before her eyes, and to Almighty God I pray that when I've got her to some safe place I may have strength yet to shoot your husband and your children, shoot them down like dogs, and laugh at you because you don't like it." The restrained passion of all the long preceding hours broke out.

His face was ashen, his eyes burning; there was foam about his lips as, with thick utterance, he hurled the words at her.
The woman stepped back in dismay, but she, too, was enraged now, and courage was the habit of the free life she led.