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Draycott found his voice at length. He took up the Japanese paper-knife and toyed with it nervously. Something in the way he gripped the handle impressed his companion, whose keen glance never wavered. Hillditch had a fair idea of what was passing in Draycott's mind--rage despair, madness, and the wild lust of slaughter reigned there.
"Why do you come and worry me in this fashion," Draycott demanded fiercely.