The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.

He was alone and running on. . . . He could see. . . . He was running, and under his breath he began to sing. . . . He had only the words of a song. And he went running on the rise of the song.

He's telling himself, I was so close. I was there. The finish line! He's living in the past, and I'm in the present. He's thinking. I'm feeling. Don't think, Andre. Hit harder.

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

To him, even the momentary was momentous.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout

He would have his plans take effect with the speed of fire

ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them — with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.