Haxton, in order to learn how and when
she had received tidings of Abdullah, had eyes or ears for naught else.
Irene and Dick were thus given a few moments free from listeners, and
the girl was quick enough to grasp the chance.
"You know why we have come here?" she asked in a low tone, halting to
look back at the belt of tiny islets which secludes Massowah's larger
island from the open sea.
"Baron von Kerber told us at Marseilles," said Dick, wondering what new
development had chased from the girl's face the smiling interest of a
moment ago.
"'Us'?" she demanded, almost sharply.
"I should have said Captain Stump, Mr. Tagg, and myself."
"What did he tell you?"
"The remarkable history of a Roman expedition against the Sabaeans, of
a storm, a shipwreck, the burial of a vast treasure, and the ultimate
discovery of its hiding-place by means of a Greek papyrus found in a
tomb."
"That is what irritates me," said she, in a sudden gust of anger. "His
behavior is faultless, yet I am certain that he is acting in an
underhanded way.
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