That had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them.
They would never get another rope around his neck.

Upon that he was resolved.

For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him.

His eyes turned blood-shot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend.

So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him; and the express messengers breathed with relief when they bundled him off the train at Seattle.
Four men gingerly carried the crate from the wagon into a small, high-walled back yard.