“Wait till it is dark,” replied Koree, “and the groups will disperse, when we can both approach them without suspicion, and carry her off without resistance. Trust your lover.”
“I trust you, or I should have not come with you, or have asked you to come,” she answered; “but I see no way to accomplish our object.”
“Do you see that big baboon beyond the crowd walking alone with an ape?” he next asked. “He looks like the fellow that struck me when Orlee was carried off.”
“It must be the same,” replied Sosee; “for there is a child near him which looks like Orlee.”
“I think that is only a young monkey,” replied Koree, “which has been taken out by its parents.”
“The three pay no attention to the other Apes,” replied Sosee, “and are wandering still farther from them. Let us approach them; in their absorption it will cause no alarm.”
“If it is the baboon which I think it is, he will know me,” replied Koree. “At least I cannot mistake him.”
“If we could get a little nearer,” said she, “I could tell whether it is Orlee or not.”
“But we cannot get near the child without getting near the parents,” replied Koree.