"Nothing. Breakfast has been ready this half-hour. We thought you were asleep, so we waited. But just now I heard you laughing. So I came in to tell you everything would be spoiled, if you didn't made haste and get ready."
"All right; we are ready. Put breakfast on the table directly," said Gentiliska.
The girl disappeared, and the two temporary companions, Sybil and Gentiliska, soon followed.
They found a comfortable breakfast laid out in the kitchen, and, as on the preceding morning, Sybil did justice to the delicacies set before her.
"Where are your companions?" she inquired of Gentiliska, not seeing any sign of the robbers' presence.
"I don't know. Where are the men, Hecate?" inquired the hostess, turning to the crone.
"Bless you, Missis, as soon as they got through with their supper, which they kept up until midnight, they one and all put on their gowns and masks, and started out on business."
"Business! Yes, that means stopping a stage-coach, or breaking into a house!" sneered the girl. "And they have not got back yet?" she inquired.
"Bless you, Missis, no! I sorter, kinder, think as they've gone a good distance this time."
Sybil said nothing; but she felt relieved, and grateful to be rid of those terrible men, even for a few hours.