"When I return to my people I will deal with this matter in the place where Lemuel Fawe died.

By the place called Starzke, I will come to reckoning, and then and then only." "When ?" asked the young man eagerly.
Gabriel Druse's eyes flashed.

"When I return as I will to return." Then suddenly he added: "This much I will say, it shall be before--" The girl stopped him.

"It shall be when it shall be.

Am I a chattel to be bartered by any will except my own?
I will have naught to do with any Romany law.