It clung to the member pertinaciously; yet she thought but little of the sign till Tirzah complained that she, too, was attacked in the same way.

The supply of water was scant, and they denied themselves drink that they might use it as a curative.

At length the whole hand was attacked; the skin cracked open, the fingernails loosened from the flesh.

There was not much pain withal, chiefly a steadily increasing discomfort.

Later their lips began to parch and seam.