She meanwhile kept watch of Helen's face.
Her victim could stand no more.
This Tige saw.
"Now!" she hissed.
Then, exerting her strength, she threw it all into that one motion, and—— As the nail was dragged out by the roots, Helen uttered one long, quivering moan, and then laid there pallid and motionless.
One would have thought her dead.
But Tige's experience told her different.
She knew that Helen had only fainted.
And she knew, also, that the suffering she had endured would produce a nervous shock from which Helen might never recover.
Tige made no attempt to release Helen from her bonds.