Crossword-Solution: VILMA 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Stiff-lipped, Vilma gasped: "What--what is it?" Cliff answered in a dry husky voice, the words seeming to trip over an awkward tongue.

With eyes that turned stiffly in their sockets he looked for Vilma, saw her raised high above the heads of two other pallid creatures, saw them climb over the rail.

Then other shadows loomed in the doorway, and Vilma, motionless and rigid, was dropped brutally beside him on the spongy floor.

Yet he felt his muscles weaken, began to relax, knew dimly that his mind, sodden with drowsiness, was creeping toward the pits of slumber--and the vibrant drone ended! * * * * * His head cleared rapidly, and he bent over Vilma.

And the galley, drum silenced, oars at rest, slid under the ledge, into the mouth of the skull! Just before total blackness fell, Cliff sprang to Vilma's side and raised her in his arms.