He seized her withered old throat in both his hands, and then and there he would have choked her to death, but the warriors interfered, and pulled his hands loose.

But they also drove the old women away, and Paul was let alone for the time.

As he stood on one side, gasping as much with anger as with pain, Braxton Wyatt, who had not been persecuted at all, came to him again with ironic words and derisive gesture.
"It was just as I told you, Paul," he said.

"I gave you good advice.

If you had taken it, they would have spared you.