"I am glad you are dark; it will make it easier, and the tribe will think you are safer. I really would like to get you back to your friends, but then I should lose you. And I don't see, either, how it ever could be managed unless they want to let you go."
Cora sighed heavily. Then she prepared to don the garb of the gypsy queen!
CHAPTER XXI
MOTHER HULL
"Mother Hull wants to talk with you, Helka."
"She must send her message by you," said Helka to Lena. "I never get along with Mother Hull."
Cora gasped, and then sighed the sigh of relief. Would that dreadful old woman enter the room and perhaps insult her?
"She is very—cross," ventured Lena.
"No more so than I am. Tell her to send her message."
"But if she will not?"