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The last of the Beast People to arrive was the little Ape-man. The earlier animals, hot and weary with their grovelling, shot vicious glances at him. "Cease!" said Moreau, in his firm, loud voice; and the Beast People sat back upon their hams and rested from their worshipping. "Where is the Sayer of the Law?" said Moreau, and the hairy-grey monster bowed his face in the dust.
"Is it still to be this and that? Is he dead indeed?" "Is there a Law?" repeated the man in white. "Is there a Law, thou Other with the Whip?" "He is dead," said the hairy-grey Thing. And they all stood watching us. "Prendick," said Montgomery, turning his dull eyes to me. "He's dead, evidently." I had been standing behind him during this colloquy. I began to see how things lay with them.
Montgomery lay on his back, with the hairy-grey Beast-man sprawling across his body. The brute was dead, but still gripping Montgomery's throat with its curving claws. Near by lay M'ling on his face and quite still, his neck bitten open and the upper part of the smashed brandy-bottle in his hand.
In another moment he had beaten off the Hyena-swine with the handle of his whip, and he and Montgomery were keeping away the excited carnivorous Beast People, and particularly M'ling, from the still quivering body. The hairy-grey Thing came sniffing at the corpse under my arm. The other animals, in their animal ardour, jostled me to get a nearer view. "Confound you, Prendick!" said Moreau.
Then Montgomery hiccoughed, "Who said he was dead?" The Monkey-man looked guiltily at the hairy-grey Thing. "He is dead," said this monster. "They saw." There was nothing threatening about this detachment, at any rate. They seemed awestricken and puzzled. "Where is he?" said Montgomery. "Beyond," and the grey creature pointed. "Is there a Law now?" asked the Monkey-man.
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