27/53 No, she would not allow herself to be robbed of the wallet with impunity, if my fingers were not supplied with an implement. I fling her in exchange a pill taken from another Lycosa. It is at once seized in the fangs, embraced by the legs and hung on to the spinneret. Her own or another's: it is all one to the Spider, who walks away proudly with the alien wallet. I substitute, in the place of the lawful bag which I have removed, the work of the Silky Epeira. |