And thus the talk went on for hours, when Koree suddenly interrupted it with the question:
“Where is Sosee?”
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The disappearance of Sosee without anybody knowing it was a new puzzle to the Ammi. Was she spirited away by some supernatural power? or did she simply drop out of line into the bushes? These were among the questions asked.
“She is a spy,” persisted Pounder, “having first become a traitor.”
“If her story be true,” observed Abroo, “she thinks more of her people than of her lover, and is a great heroine to thus sacrifice her love to save her race.”
“Whatever be the facts,” said Koree, not appreciating this kind of unselfishness, “let us search for her. If she be a spy she should not return to the enemy, and if she be a heroine she should not be lost to us.”