All at once there came over Judy a feeling of fear. She turned quickly and saw the young leader in the door behind her. There was something sinister in his looks, and between the two she felt trapped.
"Let me out," she panted. "Let me out."
With a smile, the man in the door drew aside, and she stepped out into the daylight. As she did so, he whispered to the old woman, "What did you get?"
"Nothing. But the girl has on a chain with a pearl in it that would buy us food for a year."
"Oh!"
He followed Judy quickly.
"Stay, and we will play for you," he urged.
But her nerves were shaken.
"No, no," she said, hurriedly, "I must go home."
"You must stay until we play," he insisted, and called the men together, and Judy, still trembling from the moment of dread in the dark tent, sank down once more beside the sullen girl on the rugs.