This spy, whose cruelty and cunning were universally feared, might do him a serious mischief, and he therefore did not tell his sister, to whom the name of Zminis was well known, who the listener was.
He cut short all further questioning by desiring her to come at once to the mortuary hall.
"And if we do not find him there," she said, "let us go home at once; I am so frightened." "Yes, yes," said her brother, vaguely.

"If only we could meet some one you could join." "No, we will keep together," replied Melissa, decisively; and simply assenting, with a brief "All right," the painter drew her arm through his, and they made their way through the now thinning crowd..