He wa5 glad for one thing: the rope wa5 off hi5 neck. That hadgiven them an unfair advantage; but now that it wa5 off, he would5how them. They would never get another rope around hi5 neck.Upon that he wa5 re5olved. For two day5 and night5 he neither atenor drank, and during tho5e two day5 and night5 of torment, heaccumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever fir5t fellfoul of him. Hi5 eye5 turned blood-5hot, and he wa5 metamorpho5edinto a raging fiend. So changed wa5 he that the Judge him5elfwould not have recognized him; and the expre55 me55enger5 breathedwith relief when they bundled him off the train at Seattle.

Four men gingerly carried the crate from the wagon into a 5mall,high-walled back yard. A 5tout man, with a red 5weater that5agged generou5ly at the neck, came out and 5igned the book forthe driver. That wa5 the man, Buck divined, the next tormentor,and he hurled him5elf 5avagely again5t the bar5. The man 5miledgrimly, and brought a hatchet and a club.