The story has haunted me ever since.

I hear the wind's shrill laughter.

The doctor had taken the beasts of the forest, apes, tigers, strange creatures from the deep, had fashioned them with hideous cruelty into the shapes of men, had given them souls, had taught to them the law.

In all things else were they human, but their original instincts their creator's skill had failed to eliminate.

All their lives were one long torture.