Gabriel Druse seized the headship, and my father gave him three thousand pounds that we should marry, she and I, and so bring the headship to the Fawes again when Gabriel Druse should die; and so it was done by the River Starzke in the Roumelian country." Ingolby winced, for the man's words rang true.

A cloud came over his face, but he said nothing.

Jethro saw the momentary advantage.

"You did not know ?" he asked.

"She did not tell you she was made my wife those years ago?
She did not tell you she was the daughter of the Romany King?
So it is, you see, she is afraid to tell the truth." Ingolby's knitted bulk heaved with desire to injure.