"Find me Topaz, and all the contents of this window shall be yours," she returned.
"I shall not care to have anything until we do find him, your highness," replied Gabriel simply.
"You must not call me that. Some one might hear you."
"I know it. There is danger of it," declared Gabriel; "but the gentleman who is to follow us said I should lose my head if I treated you familiarly."
The princess laughed again. She was in a new world, like a bird whose cage door had been opened.
"We need your head until we find Topaz," she replied, "for you have clever ideas. Nevertheless, my name is Louise, and you may remember it if necessity arises. Now where shall we go first?"
"Straight down this street," said the boy, leading the way. "I am expecting God will show us where to go," he added.
His companion looked at him in surprise, and Gabriel observed it. "Don't you know about God?" he asked.
"Of course. Who does not?" she returned briefly.
"I did not," answered Gabriel, "until I found the Book of Life. It speaks to me in words of flame. Have you such a book?"