"Didn't she say anything at all?"
"Not a word. She seemed frightened. On a wild venture I tried her in English, Italian, French, and even German. She made no response, yet she seemed to understand. Incidentally, she's one of the most beautiful girls I ever looked at."
The two men stared at each other.
"Didn't your man say anything at all?" asked Stephanie, no suspicion at all in her mind.
"Not a thing. He muttered continuously and more or less unintelligibly, but he is not sane yet," answered her father.
"Does he look like a South Sea islander?"
"He isn't one."
"What is he, then?"
The two men looked at each other again. Neither answered the question. Stephanie stared, greatly surprised, and not in the least understanding.
"Why don't you answer? What is the mystery?" she asked, obviously somewhat annoyed by their inexplicable hesitancy.