"I would have screamed, but it was in the house, and Tara couldn't have come to me.

I scratched him, and fought, but he bent my head back until it hurt.

He tried it again the day he gave my uncle the gold, but I struck him with a stick, and got away.

Oh, I _hate_ him! And he knows it.

And my uncle cursed me for striking him! And that's why ...