But as soon as she gained the cooler air without, she recovered, and collecting her senses a little, she gave a pretty shrewd guess at the truth.
She was silly, yet not a bad-natured girl.
She saw her duty plainly enough.
She must make herself known at once to her master.
Harkaway was close at hand, discussing the robbery still with Jefferson.
The whole of this party were of course known to Marietta; so she made straight up to Harkaway, and said hurriedly—
"Have that man seized, sir—see, that one who is following me. I am Marietta. He has just said something to me which convinces me that he was hiding in the villa to-night."
"Hullo!" exclaimed Harkaway, not a little startled at this sudden address; "why, what in Heaven's name—"
"Lose no time," interrupted Marietta eagerly, "or he will go—see, he has taken the alarm."
"The girl's right," said Jefferson, striding off after Mathias.