“See,” he went on, “see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this”⁠—and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it⁠—“the little children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend John?” Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I

could

not accept such an overwhelming idea as he suggested; so, with an attempt to argue of which I was even at the moment ashamed, I said:⁠—

“She may have been placed here since last night.”

“Indeed? That is so, and by whom?”