The next moment he charged into the cave from the outside.
I slipped back through the passage, and he charged out and around and in upon me again.

I merely repeated my performance of slipping through the passage.
He kept me there half a day before he gave up.

After that, when Lop-Ear and I were reasonably sure of gaining the double-cave, we did not retreat up the cliff to our own cave when Red-Eye came upon the scene.
All we did was to keep an eye on him and see that he did not cut across our line of retreat.
It was during this winter that Red-Eye killed his latest wife with abuse and repeated beatings.

I have called him an atavism, but in this he was worse than an atavism, for the males of the lower animals do not maltreat and murder their mates.

In this I take it that Red-Eye, in spite of his tremendous atavistic tendencies, foreshadowed the coming of man, for it is the males of the human species only that murder their mates.
As was to be expected, with the doing away of one wife Red-Eye proceeded to get another.