“She was carried away by some uv the craowd,” said Ephraim. “One uv them old varmits must hev told them to take her away.”
“And she knew me.”
“She did?”
“Surely. Didn’t you hear her call me by name?”
“I guess I did. But haow in thunder did she happen to know yeou?”
“That is a mystery—one I would give something to solve.”
Then Frank’s face became clouded again, and he bit his lip, looking about in an unsatisfied way.
“How shall I find her again?” he murmured. “I did not see her face. I should not know her if I saw her.”
“I kainder guess we’ll have aour hands full, without botherin’ abaout her. Mister Mustaf informed us that we was marked.”
“That was a bluff to scare us out of the country. These swarthy fellows do not like Christians. They dare not harm us, however. If they did, they would not have stopped when they were crowding around us a short time ago.”