'I will cut your bonds.
When you are free, slip through the window and I will guide you.' "'Very well, try it,' she said.
"So I drew my knife and stretched out my arm.

But then, Baas, I showed myself a fool--if the Great Medicine had still been there I might have known better.

I forgot the starlight which shone upon the blade of the knife.

That girl Janee came out of her sleep or swoon, lifted her head and saw the knife.

She screamed once, then at a word from her mistress was silent.