Patience screamed as she saw her new friend clawed in the face for trying to defend her.  Mr. Yoder was yelling at them in German, even as mother pulled her down the road.  Soon they were alone in the house.  Mother was still white in the face and said not a word.  She simply pointed at the stairs up to Patience's tower room.  With more fear than she had yet experience in her mother's presence, she mounted the stairs, listening to each squeak as she moved upwards.<br/><br/>She hide in a corner of the room, rocking herself and softly crying, until mother appeared in the doorway to her room.  In her hand was a wooden spoon.  She stalked over to Patience, who cried and screamed for mercy.  Mother bent her over her bed and pulled her skirt up before starting to spank her with the wooden spoon.  She was merciless this time.  With only her panties to protect her, the spoon sent a stinging pain through her buttocks and shook her body.  The whole time mother muttered.  "You will never leave this house again, as long as I am your mother, you ungrateful harpy."  When she was done spanking her, Patience collapsed in a painful pile on her bed and wept.<br/><br/>It was not long before mother mounted her steps again, and drove a single nail down through the frame of the window, with a claw hammer.  It was quickly followed by another nail.  Each blow of the hammer drove itself into Patience's very heart.   Soon her mother hand left, locking the door behind her.