Who Stole Sassi Manoon? (1968) – Random House

_____Robby went into the bathroom and removed Kelly’s gag. Kelly immediately began to babble: “There’s a girl, there’s–watch out for her–there’s a girl, she knows, she’s been–”
_____“We’ve got her,” Robby said. He was untying Kelly’s wrists.
_____“You’ve got her?”
_____“We’ve got her,” Robby said, and untied Kelly’s ankles. “Can you walk?”
_____“I think so.” Holding Robby’s hand, Kelly hobbled out to the main cabin.
_____“What happened?”
_____“No time for that now,” Kelly said.
_____“What about her?”
_____“Lock her aft. She knows too much, we’ll have to keep her.”
_____Robby said, “You mean, take two of them?”
_____“Can’t be helped,” Kelly said briskly. “We let her go, she’ll ruin everything.”
_____“Wait a second,” the girl said. “You can’t–”
_____“Lock her aft,” Kelly repeated. “Then we’ve got work to do.”
_____“That’s kidnapping!” The girl shouted.
_____Frank smiled at her. “Is that what it is? Think of that, Robby. We’re kidnappers.”
_____“Think of that,” said Robby.