"Not but that the Individual would make a capital keeper. He is as
gentle as he is strong, and as quick as a tiger-cat."
"So far as that is concerned," said the Wanderer coolly, "I could take
charge of him myself, if you did not object to my presence."
"You do not trust me," said the other, with a sharp glance.
"My dear Keyork, we are old acquaintances, and I trust you implicitly
to do whatever you have predetermined to do for the advantage of your
studies, unless some one interferes with you. You have no more respect
for human life or sympathy for human suffering than you have belief
in the importance of anything not conducive to your researches. I am
perfectly well aware that if you thought you could learn something by
making experiments upon the body of Israel Kafka, you would not scruple
to make a living mummy of him, you would do it without the least
hesitation. I should expect to find him with his head cut off, living
by means of a glass heart and thinking through a rabbit's brain. That is
the reason why I do not trust you. Before I could deliver him into your
hands, I would require of you a contract to give him back unhurt--and a
contract of the kind you would consider binding."
Keyork Arabian wondered whether Unorna, in the recklessness of her
passion, had betrayed the nature of the experiment they had been making
together, but a moment's reflection told him that he need have no
anxiety on this score.
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