"Why should we leave ?" "The rabbit can't kick dust in the fox's face, sister," said Kara, meaning that Garvington was too strong for the gypsies.
"There are rabbits and rabbits," said Chaldea sententiously.

"Where is Hearne, brother ?" "In Gentilla's tent with a Gorgious gentleman.

He's trading a horse with the swell rye, and wants no meddling with his time, sister." "I meddle now," snapped Chaldea, and walked away in her usual free and graceful manner.

Kara shrugged his shoulders and then took refuge in talking to his violin, to which he related his doubts of the girl's truth.

And he smiled grimly, as he thought of the recovered knife which was again snugly hidden under his weather-worn green coat.
Chaldea, who did not stand on ceremony, walked to the end of the camp without paying any attention to the excited gypsies, and flung back the flap of the old woman's tent.