at last the scroll was put away and young drohzne leaped up and described in a high , almost hysterical voice , and flamboyant language , the story of a slave who attacked her own master ( damon , elena noted mentally ) to tear herself free of his supervision , and then attacked the head of his family ( old drohzne , elena thought ) and his poor means of living , his cart , and his hopeless , impudent , slothful slave , and how all this had resulted in the death of his brother .