CHAPTER X.
ZULIMA AND THE DETECTIVE.On the morning following the capture of Henry Stolburst, Burt visited the latter’s hotel. The explorer’s valet told him his master had left the hotel the evening before, promising to return in a few hours.
“Do you know where he went?” inquired the detective.
“He did not say,” replied the valet, whose name was Jacob Bude.
“Have you no idea?”
“I know that he sometimes visits a foreign lady up-town.”
“A foreign lady?”
“Yes; master says she was a princess in her own country.”
“Have you ever seen her?”
“Yes, sir; she is almost as black as a n***o, but she is very handsome, for all that.”
“What is her name?”
“Master calls her Zulima.”
“Does she visit him?”
“No.”
“Then how came you to see her?”
“I’ve gone to her house with messages more than once
