What next ?" "I decided to leave the dogs behind, and serve them right! I went back to the dhow in a great hurry.

She was gone! Vanished! Disappeared as if the lake had opened up and swallowed her! I could just see the sail in the distance.

I shouted! No answer! I shouted again.

I heard Rebecca call to me! Then I heard laughter--Lady Isobel Saffren Waldon's laughter! Gassharamminy! I will run red-hot skewers into that woman when I catch her! Do you see how she has vengeance on Rebecca?
Do you see now why she took sides between me and Kamarajes and de Sousa?
Do you see how she has plotted?
What will she do now?
What Will she do ?" He began to pace up and down again furiously, shaking both fists at the unresponsive stars.
"She will do Rebecca an injury! She will give that girl to de Sousa or to that old Kamarajes! We shall never catch them! Gassharamminy! Oh, Absalom! You should have fired when I told you! That she-dog has a trick of some kind up her sleeve yet! How shall we catch her?
Why do we wait?
Give me that rifle! I will take a canoe and go after them alone! You do not know what Greek spirit is! I am American sometimes--English when it suits me--always Greek when I am wronged!" "You certainly have been put upon" Fred answered.

"Tell us how your Greek spirit justified deserting us." "Why not ?" snarled Coutlass.