CHAPTER XXXVI
STILL ON THE ROAD"Will you never learn wisdom?" demanded Mishka, when, after a few minutes, he returned. "Why could you not rest here in safety?"
"Because I wanted to walk some of my stiffness off," I replied coolly. "I had quite a good time, and met an old acquaintance."
"Who gave you much interesting news?" he asked, with a sardonic inflection of his deep voice that made me guess Yossof had told him what passed at our interview.
"Why, no; I can't say that he did that," I confessed. Already I realized that I had learned absolutely nothing from the Jew save the new password, and the fact that he was, or soon would be, in direct communication with Anne.
Mishka gave an approving grunt.
"There are some who might learn discretion from Yossof," he remarked sententiously.
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