Malbihn remained scowling and angry. He replied to Jenssen's friendly
advances in curt monosyllables. To Meriem he did not speak, but
on several occasions she discovered him glaring at her from beneath
half closed lids--greedily. The look sent a shudder through her.
She hugged Geeka closer to her breast and doubly regretted the
knife that they had taken from her when she was captured by Kovudoo.
It was on the fourth day that Meriem began definitely to give up
hope. Something had happened to Korak. She knew it. He would
never come now, and these men would take her far away. Presently
they would kill her. She would never see her Korak again.
On this day the Swedes rested, for they had marched rapidly and
their men were tired. Malbihn and Jenssen had gone from camp to
hunt, taking different directions. They had been gone about an
hour when the door of Meriem's tent was lifted and Malbihn entered.
The look of a beast was on his face.
Chapter 14
With wide eyes fixed upon him, like a trapped creature horrified
beneath the mesmeric gaze of a great serpent, the girl watched
the approach of the man.
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