Then "Fatalite" was called to the rescue as being the only one among
them capable of managing horseflesh.
When not required in her office of peacemaker she was sent on in front
as guide to the procession, dressed in her boy's disguise and astride
the most vicious of the mules. These excursions meant less rest for
her than ever for the party seldom returned till five o'clock in the
morning.
Emile had told her that she must get her sleep up in the hut.
"You have two hours to yourself," he said. "You can't sleep up there?
Nonsense! Make up your mind to do it and then you will."
The building in question, which was more like an outhouse than anything
else, she had christened, "The Black Hole of Calcutta." The upper
part, which was approached by a ladder as a loft would be, was used as
a meeting-room, while the ground floor became a temporary stable for
the horses and mules, of which she was left in charge. Since the scene
in that upper room in the Calle de Pescadores she had put herself
outside all consideration; and Sobrenski now excluded her from all work
other than the merest drudgery.
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