Chapter 27: About It and About

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌⁠Danbazzar, in these days, was constantly at the Cumberland home. Next to Barry, it was evident that Zalithea preferred his society to that of anybody else. John Cumberland she respected, but he, for all his knowledge of the old, mysterious land in which they had found her, groped in vain with the strange tongue which she spoke and which Danbazzar alone understood. Nor was he so successful as his s