"And now of your wisdom tell me how am I to look for your mistress, to say nothing of rescuing her, when I do not know whither she has been taken?
Probably this Nest of which the Portugee talked is a secret place.

How long has she been carried off ?" "This will be the twelfth day, Lord.

As for the Nest, it is secret; that I have discovered.

It is to your wisdom that I look to find it." Leonard mused awhile, then a thought struck him.

Turning to the dwarf, who had been sitting by listening to all that was said in stolid silence, his great head resting upon his knees, he spoke to him in Dutch: "Otter, were you not once taken as a slave ?" "Yes, Baas, once, ten years ago." "How was it ?" "Thus Baas.