"I ask you if, in the course of your sylvan ramblings, you have seen any sort of foreign wild beast, to wit a yellow, speckled monster, which the learned call a panther?"
Sange Moarte gave a start, as if suddenly aroused out of a deep sleep. His glassy eyes flashed and sparkled as he looked at his interrogator, a feverish scarlet flushed his cheeks, and he stammered tremulously—
"I have seen it, seen it, seen it."
And with that he covered his eyes, so as not to look upon the dead body.
"Where have you seen it?" asked the Patrol-officer.
"Far, far away," whispered the Wallach; then he became dumb once more and buried his forehead in his hands.
"Name the place. Where is it?"
The Wallach looked timidly around. A cold shudder ran through him, and with fearful, rolling eyes he whispered to the Patrol-officer—
"In the Gradina Dracului."[36]
[36] Gradina Dracului. Garden of the Devil (Roumanian).