| Lela said that he must hear what it was before he made any promise. |
| So Lela started off and when he was gone his wife fell ill, and her body became a mass of sores. |
| Finally Mary admits she said to Lela that she thought perhaps Tommy had something to do with the dead body, and that is when the frightened girl hotfoots it out of there. |
| Lela promised to take her with him, so they cut off the tongue and ears and claws of the Rakhas and returned to the city. |
| Lela felt her face pale and her pupils shrink in fear, and she slowly put her project aside. |
| Strange how everybody seems to fall for him, even Lela Barker. |
