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Something in her attitude made me look away again casually and go on with my eating. Miela had evidently not noticed her. The slave woman came slowly toward us. A moment later she hurled herself upon Baar's wife from behind. At the same instant I threw myself forward, falling prone, but within reach of the seated woman.
We went in single file up its board incline, and entered a squalid room with matting on the floor, a rude charcoal brazier at one side, and the remains of a previous meal lying on a table. Two women were in the room as we entered. I took these to be Baar's wife and a servant. Two naked little children lay on the floor, one of them crying lustily.
Where is the money? Who handles it?" The questions piled upon me faster than I could voice them, and all the while my tired brain and weary, aching body called only for rest for sleep. I thought of Mercer and Anina. They should be back by now. "We must send home and have them told we are here, Miela. And that slave woman of Baar's she will be there, too. She must be sent here to us also."
Of Lua he had, so far, found no trace. Baar's slave woman was in the castle, waiting our commands. The girl who had brought us Mercer's message was also waiting to ask us when we wanted her and the other girls for the trip back to the Twilight Country. "Right away," I exclaimed. "I'm not going to take any chances with Mercer. We'll start at once."
She flew swiftly up and poised over the man. He had started toward us. Evidently he was, so far, as anxious for silence as we, for he made no sound. I saw now he was one of those who had come to Baar's shack.
Baar glanced around as he came in, and with what I took to be an oath ordered the children removed from the room. The slave woman I could see she was a slave by the band upon her arm picked them up. Evidently she did not move fast enough to suit Baar's temper, for as she straightened up the man cuffed her upon the head.
Have the city, thoroughly searched Baar's house particularly. Tell him I killed Baar's wife. Have that slave woman sent home to me. "Tell him to capture Baar and any of his known associates. If he does, have him report to me at once. Say to him that I must have word of Lua or I'll have a new chief of police by to-morrow. For the rest, have his men patrol the city as usual."
There seemed to be furtive figures lurking among the palms. "Those cannot be Baar's men, Miela there are too many. What can it " We had reached a little doorway under the front terrace. There was no time to investigate these advancing figures. Baar and his men might already be inside the castle. I slid through the doorway, every muscle tense.
Miela had brought the knife from Baar's shack, and with it clenched in her hand was close beside me. I wanted to make her stay outside, where she could fly away if danger threatened, but she pleaded to follow me, and I let her come. I needed her, since I had no idea of the interior arrangements of the building. We passed along a dim hallway and up a narrow flight of stone steps.
Baar's followers had for some time been talking quietly with the lower classes, and, finding they could count on their support, planned now to murder the king. Then with the queen and the little prince held as hostages, they expected that the men of science, threatened also with a revolt of the peons, would release the light-ray. The light-ray once in his control, Baar could make himself king.
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