"I have known animals of finer disposition." "You at least," I said fiercely, "were not his judge.

You struck him in the dark, too.

It was a cowardly action." Ray turned his head.

Then I saw that around his neck was a circular bandage.
"If it interests you to know it," he remarked drily, "I was not the assailant.

But for the fact that I was warned it might have been my body which you came across on the sands.