into it, where, in spite of his rage, he stretched his legs with an
evident animal satisfaction. He wallowed in the straitened liberty that
the boat gave, lying down in the bottom and gently kicking out his
cramped limbs, while the girl held tight to the trees, steadying the
boat with her feet.

It was this power of taking an evident sensual satisfaction in such
small luxuries as he was able to obtain that had alone attached Markham
to his daughter. His character belonged to a type found both among men
and women; it was a nature entirely selfish and endowed with an
instinctive art in working upon the unselfish sentiments of others--an
art which even creates unselfishness in other selfish beings.

"I came as soon as I could," she said. "I suppose you did not want me to
put Toyner on your track."

"Yee owe," said the wretched man, stretching himself luxuriously. "I've
been a-standin' up and a-sittin' down and a-standin' up since last
night, an'----" Here he suddenly remembered something. He sat up and
looked round fearfully.

"When it got dark before the moon came I saw the devil! One! I think
there was half a dozen of them! I saw them comin' at me in the air. I'd
have gone mad if they hadn't gone off when the moon rose."

"Lie still, father, until I give you something to eat," she said.

While she was unfastening her bundle, she looked about her, and saw how
the spaces of shadow between the grey branches might easily seem to take
solid form and weird shape to a brain that was fevered with excitement