"I did ask for her hand," I said, "and she refused me. That part is true; but if she has been abducted, in the name of your first ancestor, do not waste time trying to connect me with the diabolical plot. I had nothing to do with it. How did it happen? Who was with her?"
"Sil Vagis was with her. They were walking in the garden," replied Tor Hatan.
"You saw her abducted," I asked, turning to Sil Vagis, "and you are here unwounded and alive?"
He started to stammer. "There were many of them," he said. "They overpowered me."
"You saw them?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Was I among them?" I demanded.
"It was dark. I could not recognize any of them; perhaps they were disguised."
"They overpowered you?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said.