He bowed and retired.
CHAPTER LXX.
OSMOND AND LOLO THE SLAVE—THREATS AND DEFIANCE—THE CIRCASSIAN'S DOOM—OSMOND EARNS HIS REWARD.
The three Circassian slaves had been sent as a present to the real pasha, Osmond's master, by some friendly Algerian prince, and, arriving in the absence of the pasha, the deputy had cast greedy eyes upon the rich prize.
Finding all his authority was lost upon the Circassians girls, who stoutly refused to be persuaded, he grew vicious.
Nothing was positively known, but the tragedy which Jack and Harry Girdwood had witnessed hard by the water-gate of the Konaki, coupled with the recognition of the two eunuchs by Tinker as the two assassins whom he and Bogey had capsized into the water, made matters look altogether very suspicious indeed.
The few threatening words which Osmond had muttered to one of the fair Circassians, too, should have told their own tale.
The Circassian girls had endeavoured to screen those luckless negroes, Tinker and Bogey, for had they not led the boys into the presence of Osmond disguised as girls?
Here, then, was a pretext for further ill-usage of the unfortunate slaves.
The girls were brought into the tyrant's presence.