Brutal to the last extreme, he left the animals penned to die in the flames, and laughed at their agony.
Again and again the awful sounds came to her.

She was hysterical when she heard his footstep approach once more, shrieked aloud for mercy.
He mocked her.
"Stop it! Cut it out, I say.

Come on now--do you want to stay here and burn up in the house ?" "I can't see--I'm blind," was all she could manage to say.
"Blind, huh ?" He laughed now uproariously.

"Well, it's a good thing you was blind, or else you might of seen Sim Gage! Did you ever see Sim?
What made you come here?
What did you come for ?" "I'm his housekeeper.

He employed me----" "Employed you?
For what ?--for housekeeping?
It looks like it, don't it?
Where did you come from, gal ?" "East--Ohio--Cleveland," she spoke almost unconsciously and truthfully.
"Cleveland?
Plenty of our people there too still in the iron works.
Cleveland?
And how come you out here ?" "I'm ill--I'm a blind woman.