“Did they say anything else?”
“One other person was held. A young boy.” Tony shuddered. “The child was being treated worst of all.”
I felt stunned at the revelation. Could this be David Bryce? What link lay between the men and the boy? “Did the men know who took them?”
Tony shook his head. “They said the man wore all black, his face covered with a black cloth, or veil like what you ladies wear perhaps, but thicker, so they couldn’t see what he looked like. Not even a small part of his skin showed, nor the color of it, nor even his eyes, but they did say that he was a huge man, monstrously tall. He kept them blindfolded most of the time, or in the dark, and tied.”
“Well, that sounds pleasant. Did he say why he took them?”
“No,” Tony said, “that’s the true mystery. He didn’t seem to wan
