"Oh, I ain't got nothing special against Mr. Lessing. He's a
pleasant-spoken chap, all I've seen of him. On'y when a man gits to
meddlin' with things it ain't no person's business to meddle with
he's liable to git called crazy--ef not worse. I ain't holdin' with
what people say when they get to talkin'--no sir! I got enough to do
tendin' my own business. But there's plenty won't go near Mr.
Lessing's place after dark nor no other time, an' if you was to
listen to them I reckon they got their reasons. They say his wife's
as crazy as he is. Seems when he ain't traipsin' round the woods all
hours o' the night he's shut up there in that stoodio place doin' his
vivisectin'----"
"_What?_"