Sentence:  Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier <WSD>accounted</WSD> for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ (for)). (from 19th c.)