Mitsos advanced cautiously, for he was meaning to go to his boat, where he had left his coat and shoes, and the boat lay behind a corner most convenient for a hiding man. The Capsina was standing close by, and Michael bared his teeth as Mitsos came up. "Fool, Michael!" said the Capsina; "is it not he?" Then as Mitsos got within speaking distance-- "Anastasi has gone," she said; "you were over quick, were you not, at seeing him?" Mitsos laughed, but paused a moment as Michael made the circuit of him, sniffing suspiciously. "This is what I never entirely enjoy," he said, standing still. "Now no man can go sniffing round my bones and have a sound head on his shoulders. But there is less sport, so I take it, in fighting a dog. Ah, he is satisfied, is he? That is for the good. But where is fishy Anastasi?" "He went to the market with Constantine Kanaris to buy provisions." "Is Constantine Kanaris here?" asked the boy. "No, I know him not; but Nikolas Vidalis, the best man God ever made, and my uncle, knew him for a fine man. But why, if Kanaris is here she is here, for he serves with her." "She! Who?" "Who but the Capsina? I would give gold money to see her. Why--" Mitsos stopped short, and Sophia laughed. "Thus there is double pleasure," she said, "for I, too, have often wished to see the boy of whom the people sing. Yes, I am the Capsina; why not?" Mitsos's big eyes grew round and wide. "What must you have thought of me?" he said. "But indeed I did not know--" and he bent down from his great height and would have kissed the hand she held out to him. "Not so!" she cried, laughing; "they of Maina and we are equal." "That is true," said Mitsos, standing upright a moment; "but where is her equal who took three Turkish ships?" and bending again he kissed it. "Yet a lad I have heard of burned a ship of war," said she. Mitsos flushed a little under his brown skin. "That was nothing," he said, "and, indeed, but for my cousin Yanni there would have been no burning." Then changing the subject quickly: "You came to-day only, Capsina? Surely you will not go again to-morrow." Then, "Ah," he cried, "but I, too, am going to sea, so I may say, with you, for I am to be of the crew of the Turk you brought in here. But you will have a fleet soon!" "I cannot have too many brave men to work with," said Sophia. "But you under me! Lad, you could sail a double course while I sailed single. Though I have known you perhaps ten minutes, yet you have made me the richer," and she held out the Turkish pound she had won from Kanaris, telling him how she had gained it. Mitsos grinned with pleasure. "Well, I think I do know this bay," he said, "for indeed I must have been more hours on it than in the house. But, oh, Capsina, when will that Turkish ship you took be ready for sea, for indeed it eats my heart to go catching fish when I should be catching Turks."