“Could you get it?”
“Most of it.”
“Where is it?” His eyes gleamed with the light of avarice.
She drew in her breath hard.
“It was stole.”
His face went blood-red; the cords of his neck swelled as if he were straining at a weight. She shrank from the snarling ferocity of his mouth.
“You lie!” The voice was not human.
He clenched his huge fist and knocked her down.
She was on the ground when Susie came out.
“Mother!”