"For whom were they looking?"
"For an English Captain named Ellerey," was the answer. "I said that no such person visited here at any time, but they would not believe me, and searched the whole house."
"And found—"
"No one, Countess."
The man was wise; he said no more before the other servants.
"I will complain to his Majesty," Frina answered, and then she went quickly to the apartments occupied by the Princess Maritza. Hannah met her on the threshold. "Has she not returned, my lady?"
"Where is she? How did she have warning?" asked Frina.
"She had gone long before. She went without a word to me. When they came asking for some Englishman, I had just wit enough to answer that I was your ladyship's servant, and knew no Englishman; but it was hard work not to ask them what had become of my Princess."
"And Dumitru?"
"Gone, gone. I always took him for a cut-throat with that naked knife hidden in his shirt. I believe he has made away with her."