Excerpt: ...couldn't give you that-" "I will tell you many things-about one who has gone away," tempted the old woman. For a moment Judy wavered. "Oh, I can't," she decided. "I can't let you have this." The old woman got up. "Then go," she said roughly. All at once there came over Judy a feeling of fear. She turned quickly and saw the young leader in the door behind her. There was something sinister in his looks, and between the two she felt trapped. "Let me out," she panted. "Let me out." With a smile, the man in the door ...
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Excerpt: ...couldn't give you that-" "I will tell you many things-about one who has gone away," tempted the old woman. For a moment Judy wavered. "Oh, I can't," she decided. "I can't let you have this." The old woman got up. "Then go," she said roughly. All at once there came over Judy a feeling of fear. She turned quickly and saw the young leader in the door behind her. There was something sinister in his looks, and between the two she felt trapped. "Let me out," she panted. "Let me out." With a smile, the man in the door drew aside, and she stepped out into the daylight. As she did so, he whispered to the old woman, "What did you get?" "Nothing. But the girl has on a chain with a pearl in it that would buy us food for a year." "Oh!" He followed Judy quickly. "Stay, and we will play for you," he urged. But her nerves were shaken. "No, no," she said, hurriedly, "I must go home." "You must stay until we play," he insisted, and called the men together, and Judy, still trembling from the moment of dread in the dark tent, sank down once more beside the sullen girl on the rugs. But the leader called the girl away for a moment, and when she came back she sat closer to Judy than before, and her hand was busy with the fastening of the chain at the back-but so lightly, so deftly, that Judy sat unconscious. And in the intervals of the music the girl laughed and chatted, telling Judy of the life on the road, of anything to hold her attention. "You would look like one of us," she said, "if you wore one of these," and she threw across Judy's shoulders a scarf of red silk. "I believe I am half gipsy," said Judy, trying to be agreeable, but shrinking with a feeling of repulsion from the untidy creature so near her. The girl drew away the scarf with a loud laugh and a triumphant nod and a wink to the leader, and presently the music stopped. "I must go," said Judy, more and more in dread of these strange people. Once more the old woman bent over the blue flames; but the...
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