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time to time, placed beneath it, if only that she may be reminded that she is a
slave. It is my belief that women have an instinctual understanding of the whip.
The wagon lurched ahead.
(pg.13) it would attempt its rendezvous with the road by an ascendant diagonal.
The brigands were jerked forward, by the neck, behind it. One lost his footing and
was dragged for a few feet, through the ditch water, part way up the slope.
тАЬPut your backs to it,тАЭ I told the captives.
тАЬLook out!тАЭ cried someone from the road, above, perhaps a fellow come forward,
inquiring concerning the delay, dismounted from one of the other wagons.
тАЬLook out!тАЭ cried another.
тАЬIt is tipping!тАЭ cried the leader of the brigands in terror.
I tried to set myself on the slope, but slipped back, and the wagon slid sideways
toward me, the wheels tearing lines in the grass, tilting. Then I got solid footing
and, my hands pressing against the side of the wagon, righted it.
тАЬWho is down there?тАЭ called a fellow from the surface of the road.
I saw lanterns lifted, up on the road.
тАЬThere is a gang of five men on the other side of the wagon,тАЭ said a fellow. тАЬIt is
all right now. They have righted it.тАЭ
The first tharlarion now had its heavy, clawed feet on the stones of the road. I
heard its claws on the stone. Some other men, too, came to the second tharlarion,
hauling on its harness, and others, too, seized the wagon sides and the forward
wheels, lending their efforts to getting the wagon on the road. This was done in
part in the camaraderie of the road, but, too, men were anxious to be on their way.
It was not now safe in the north, in this area, particularly for refugees from the
vicinity of ArтАЩs Station.
тАЬI see only one fellow down there,тАЭ said a man from the road. I went to retrieve
my pack from where I had cast it on the embankment. It was soaked through, I
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was sweating, in spite of the cold and the rain. Too, I had been very afraid, for a
moment. I had feared the wagon would tip. I saw it now above me, mostly on the
road, though, tilting, the left wheels were still over the edge of the stones. The
darkness and the traffic on the other side made it hazardous to pull fully across the
road. Harnesses might be fouled. Men can be trampled by tharlarion, wagons can
be torn apart.
(pg.14) I ascended to the surface of the road. I put my pack at the back of the
wagon.
тАЬIt is one of the scarlet caste,тАЭ said a fellow to another.
тАЬHold the lantern here,тАЭ I said to the fellow of the driver, who had now, having
arrested the progress of the following tharlarion, released his hold on the beastтАЩs
harness.
тАЬThat is Andron, the brigand!тАЭ suddenly said a man, pointing to the leader of the
brigands.
There were angry shouts.
тАЬPut their necks under the wheels!тАЭ said a man.
тАЬImpale them,тАЭ cried another.
тАЬTie their feet together and drag them behind the wagons,тАЭ said another.
тАЬKneel,тАЭ I suggested to the brigands. There was a large number of people here and