"Was the Capitaine de Sabron alone?"
"Except," said the native steadily, with a glance of disgust at the duke, "except for his little dog."
"Ah!" exclaimed Julia Redmond, with a catch in her voice, "do you hear that? He must have been his servant. What was the dog's name?"
"My name," said the native, "is Hammet Abou."
To her at this moment Hammet Abou was the most important person in North Africa.
"What was the little dog's name, Hammet Abou?"
The man raised his eyes and looked at the white woman with admiration.
"Pitchouné," he said, and saw the effect.
Tremont saw the effect upon her, too.
"I have a wife and ten children," said the man, "and I live far away."