“The Mongols’ Satan.”
“Oh! So these Yezidees are devil-worshipers!”
“They are more. They are actually devils.”
“You don’t really believe that even in unexplored China there exists such a creature as a real sorcerer, do you?” he inquired, smilingly.
“I don’t wish to talk of it.”
To his surprise her face had flushed, and he thought her sensitive mouth quivered a little.
He watched her in silence for a moment; then, leaning a little way across the table:
“Where are you going when the show here closes?”
“To my boarding-house.”
“And then?”