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`` Stay where you are , '' the Captain added , and Billy stayed , and through the dusk the two men stood eyeing each with a glare of hatred . But Kerissen 's eyes held hatred triumphant . `` So , Monsieur , '' said the Turk . `` This is the midnight call you gentlemen pay -- in the chamber of my wife . '' `` Your wife ! '' Billy gave a snort of unbelief . `` She says you did not marry her ! ''