"Has he hypnotized you many times since he took you from Mrs. Chadwick's?" asked Matt anxiously.
"Only once. I gave up hope, and went with him without trying to resist. He said he intended to send me back to India, but not until the rajah had paid him a lot of rupees."
"He treated you well?"
"He always treated me well—in his way—but the horror of going into a trance and saying and doing things I know nothing about is more terrible than ever to me. It was the fear of a trance that made me promise not to make Uncle Ben any trouble."
"Who was the man who impersonated the agent of the British ambassador?"
"I had never seen him before."
"I thought that perhaps he might have been the man who sold tickets in the ticket wagon for Burton—the one who was with the show when you and Ben Ali were traveling with us."
She shook her head.
"I should have known that man if it had been he."
"Where did the man take you?"