He re-seated her, and taking the taws from her trembling hand, carried it himself to the tyrant.

Upon him Malison's fury, breaking loose, expended itself in a dozen blows on the right hand, which Alec held up without flinching.

As he walked to his seat, burning with pain, the voice of the master sounded behind him; but with the decree it uttered, Alec did not feel himself at liberty to interfere.
"Ann Anderson," he bawled, "stand up on the seat." With trembling limbs, Annie obeyed.

She could scarcely stand at first, and the form shook beneath her.

For some time her colour kept alternating between crimson and white, but at last settled into a deadly pallor.