Diligently Garrett examined and cataloged the creatures under his observation, as meticulous as any scientist at a microscope. The men and the boys and the little girls he monitored almost politely after his own fashion, only for the sake of identifying them, counting them, sometimes giving them nicknames to help him differentiate them. Basically, he simply checked their faces and then looked hurriedly away. That was only right, it seemed. He did not have any qualms about the women, though. His conception of right was different here. Yes, for these were the prize of this exploratory trip—his pretty little pets, his unknowing toys. How happily he aroused himself with the sight of them!
One of the women was probably sixty or sixty-five years in age. Judging by the shape of her now, it was m
