The Pirate Woman by A E Dingle Chapter 22 Page 4

her victim, she turned away and went to meet Milo. He now entered with his slaves.

“Where are the two strangers?” she demanded harshly.

Milo returned her stare with a look of simple surprise. He had seen nothing of them, and had thought of them being yet with his mistress.

“I saw them not, Sultana,” he replied.

“Saw them not, great clod!” she blazed at him, clenching her hands in rage. “Are they here, then?”

Milo looked around in bewilderment. In all her life Dolores had been his especial care; in her many moments of temper she had perhaps pained his devoted heart, but never had she used to him the tone she now used. It seemed to his