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Before Adam

CHAPTER IX
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He had tossed her there, after she had died, from his cave-mouth.
He never buried his dead.

The task of carrying away the bodies, that else would have polluted our abiding-place, he left to the horde.

We usually flung them into the river below the last drinking-place.
Not alone did Red-Eye murder his wives, but he also murdered for his wives, in order to get them.

When he wanted a new wife and selected the wife of another man, he promptly killed that man.

Two of these murders I saw myself.


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