 Who is Beula and what is her connection to the narrator?
Captain Hannah climbed painfully down from the Delta Crucis , hobbled across the spaceport to where Beulah and I were waiting to greet him and hit me in the eye. I almost felt sorry for him, but just then Beulah came racking across the field with her two-ton infant in tow, to show her off to Hannah. And because somehow we had picked up half of the plants in the northern hemisphere of Mypore and the other half in the southern hemisphere, it turned out that half of the plants had a sinistral corkscrew and the other half had a dextral.
 Beula is Captain Hannah’s pet elephant. Her baby belongs to the narrator, linking the captain and the narrator.
 Beula is the narrator’s pet elephant. Her baby belongs to Captain Hannah, linking the two men even though they don’t like each other.  Beula is Captain Hannah’s pet elephant. The narrator sold her Captain Hannah years ago, leading to a business relationship between the two men.  Beula is Captain Hannah’s pet elephant. Her baby belongs to the narrator, linking the captain and the narrator.  Beula is the narrator’s pet elephant. Her baby was sold to Captain Hannah, which led to a business relationship between the two men.