“Save the poor wretch, Max, for my sake.”
“If you like, but Klatcher can catch up to us; it is good to give him a scare.”
“Please save him.”
Max laughed long and heartily.
“How serious you are. One would think we were in the rapids of Niagara.”
“My dear fellow—Klatchman is a human being——”
“Is he?”
“Of course he is.”
“Thought perhaps he was Darwin’s missing link.”
Max may appear to the reader to have been thoroughly heartless, but he was not.