The Baron was intent upon again getting Elma into his power.

Was it at his orders, I wondered, that the sweet-faced girl had been deprived of speech and hearing?
Had she fallen an innocent victim to his infamous scheming?
About me men were eating strange dishes and talking in Finnish, while others were smoking and drinking their vodka; but I was in no mood for observation.

My only thought was of she who was now lost to me.
Why had she disappeared without warning I was at loss to imagine, yet I could only surmise that her flight had been compulsory.

Some women possess a mysterious sense of intuition, a curious and indescribable faculty of knowing when evil threatens them, that presents a strange and puzzling problem to our scientists.

It is unaccountable, and yet many women possess it in a very marked degree.