 The four friends learn that children are disappearing everywhere in the area of the camp, and Flavia guesses that some kind of organized kidnapping racket is operating.Hearing one of the refugees mutter “Felix just got luckier” with news of another disappearance, Flavia suspects the powerful local landowner Publius Pollius Felix, who happens to be her uncle Gaius’s patron.Felix visits the refugee camp, ostensibly helping the Emperor organize supplies for the refugees.