"She has told me, and she knows that it is here."
"She knows nothing of the kind, and she has lied. She has lied in order that she may rob you. Jew as you are, she will be too many for you. She will rob you, with all her seeming simplicity."
"I trust her as I do my own soul," said Trendellsohn.
"Very well; I tell you that she, and she only, knows where these papers are. For aught I know, she has them herself. I believe that she has them. Ziska," said Madame Zamenoy, calling aloud — "Ziska, come hither;" and Ziska entered the room. "Ziska, who has the title-deeds of your uncle's houses in the Kleinseite?" Ziska hesitated a moment without answering. "You know, if anybody does," said his mother; "tell this man, since he is so anxious, who has got them."
"I do not know why I should tell him my cousin's secrets."
"Tell him, I say. It is well that he should know."
"Nina has them, as I believe," said Ziska, still hesitating.
"Nina has them!" said Trendellsohn.
"Yes; Nina Balatka," said Madame Zamenoy. "We tell you, to the best of our knowledge at least. At any rate, they are not here."
"It is impossible that Nina should have them," said Trendellsohn. "How should she have got them?"