go away."

"You saw her go with him?"

"Yes. She had fainted. I helped to carry her down through the
_selamlik_ to the street at the back of the house. Then an automobile
came, and they took her away."

"There have been no inquiries here?"

"None. And you will say nothing?" she asked anxiously.

"Not a word. Would you have me deliver myself into the hands of my
enemies?"

"I shall help you, Excellency, if you will try to find her."

"Yes. I shall try. I will follow, if you will provide me with clothing."

"It shall be done. But first you must eat and drink and then we shall
plan."

Zubeydeh, now completely disarmed, brought cakes and sherbet, and when
Renwick had eaten and drunk, gave him cigarettes and the clothing,
showing him into a room where he quickly divested himself of his rags of
wrapper and put on the garments which she had brought. They were
curiously familiar. His own disguise--that which he had bought in the
bazaar and had worn when he had first come to this house. He felt in the
pockets of his trousers but the money was gone. And when he was dressed,
Zubeydeh colored his face with some liquid which she brought from the
kitchen.

The clock on the mantle indicated the hour of eleven when Renwick
prepared to take his departure. It had been a market day in the Turkish
quarter, and late at night the farmers would be returning to their
homes. Aware of the difficulties which might lie in the way of his
leaving the city, Yeva proposed that Renwick should leave the Carsija in
the cart of a cousin of Zubeydeh's, a farmer who lived on the Romanja
Plain; and Renwick, quick to see the advantages of the plan, readily
agreed, for it was toward the Visegrader Gate, he had learned, that the
automobile of Captain Goritz had departed.

As he left the lower door with Zubeydeh, who was to accompany him as far
as the Carsija, Renwick caught Yeva by the hand.

"I cannot thank you, girl. But some day I shall pay. You will remember.
I promise."

"It is nothing," she said; and then with a laugh: "But if in Vienna or
Paris or London, you should see a silk dress of blue----"

"You shall have two of them--and two of pink----"

"Excellency----!" she cried, clapping her hand childishly.

"And if I find her--jewels----!"

"It is too much----" she cried. And then eagerly, as though she feared
he might misinterpret, "Still, I should like them----"

"You shall have them--some day."

"I shall pray to Allah that you