That which has befallen you we place it here (or, 'we draw it here'-- i.

e., the severed foot and claws of a lynx).

Being born white (literally, 'being born having a white neck'), this happened." And the ghastly sign of Leshi ended it.
"But what does it all signify ?" she asked, bewildered.
And even as she spoke, out of the dull and menacing horror of the symbols, into my mind, leaped terrible comprehension.
I said coolly: "It must have been Amochol--and his Erie sorcerers! How came you in Catharines-town ?" "I?
In Catharines-town!" she faltered.

"Was I, then, ever there ?" I pointed at the drawing of the dead white dog.
"Somebody saved you from that hellish sacrifice.

I tell you it is plain enough to read.