Seeking out the very capable maid Margaret had succeeded in securing, he discovered her in a state of sulky indignation that would scarcely vouchsafe to him a civil or intelligible answer to his inquiries.
"Where is Mrs. Leitzel, Amanda?"
"I don't know where your wife's at. She went out with that fellah," the girl crossly replied.
"'Fellah?'" repeated Daniel, indignant in his turn at what, even in a New Munich servant, seemed very rude familiarity.
"The fellah you're eatin' and sleepin' here," elucidated Amanda.
"Did she take the twins with her?"
"No, sir, she did not; she left 'em in my charge!"
"Why, then, are you not with them?" Daniel asked in quick anxiety.
"I was with 'em till them two women come in here interferin'!"
"Two women? Ah, my sisters! Are they here? Where are they?"