"You shut up, professor," Jack exclaimed. "You have got a wife in England, you know you have."
"I shan't say any more," returned the professor meekly.
For the space of five minutes Kanka gazed at our friends with a mingled look of rage and surprise on her face.
Presently she spoke.
"Do you know what will happen if you don't marry?" she said.
"Yes," returned Jack, growing the least bit reckless.
"What?"
"Well, if we don't marry, we certainly won't have any wives!"
"More than that will happen. You will all be thrown into the burning pit under the mountain."
The face of the woman now grew as black as a thundercloud.