** My Property - Punishment of a private slave.

Lake Ngao 2 (177.344,99.3125,22.1825)

"Do not attempt to interfere in the relationship between a man and his slave," he said. "That relationship is absolute." Kajira of Gor

"I think," said Samos, "that I detect a difference in you. I think that here, somehow, in the north, you have found yourself." I shrugged.

A seaman dragged Telima, by the arm, before us. She was stripped. Her hair was before her face. Her wrists were fastened behind her by the rude bracelets of the north. The Kur collar, leather, some three inches in height, ho]ding her chin up, with its ring, was still on her throat. She had spent the last five days chained in a small, log slave kennel. She looked at Samos, and then, swiftly, lowered her eyes.

He looked upon the vulnerable, stripped girl with fury. He knew well, now, what had been her role, her willing role, in the plan of the Kurii.

"I will see that she is well punished," he said.

"You are speaking of one of my slave girls," I said. "Ah!" he said.

"I will see that she is punished," I said. She looked at me with fear.