They all thought him dead.

She knew he was alive, and she knew of his hiding- place.

What did the Arabs want to know about the white men?
The white men want with Dain?
Did they wish to kill him?
She could tell them all--no, she would say nothing, and in the night she would go to him and sell him his life for a word, for a smile, for a gesture even, and be his slave in far-off countries, away from Nina.

But there were dangers.

The one-eyed Babalatchi who knew everything; the white man's wife--she was a witch.