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Scanned in China. Safe, she meets Mordecai ben Ezra , a Jewish doctor and her next door neighbor who treats her ankle and offers her mint tea, and his children, Miriam , who tends to her asthmatic brother, and Jonathan, the boy who saved her life.
She also meets Bobas , their sweet, white house dog. Three days later, on her birthday, her father takes her out to the blacksmith in hopes of selling the jewelry she found in the magpie's nest so she could use the money to by the Aeneid. On the way, she spots a group of shivering naked girls in chains being whipped to walk by Venalicius , a slave trader rumoured to kidnap children. Flavia notices one African girl at the end of the line who did not flinch or shiver and whose wooden plaque beared her price: six hundred sestercii.
In the shop, the goldsmith offers her six hundred sestercii for her jewelry, and she accepts. She asks to be taken to the forum, where slaves are sold, and her father walks up to Venalicius to buy the African slave girl. However, the slave trader increases her price to seven hundred sestercii, a hundred short of Flavia's money. Marcus pays off the extra hundred as a birthday gift to Flavia. Back in her house, Flavia cleans the girl and feeds her. The African girl introduces herself as Nubia, but does not understand Latin and only minimal Greek.
Later that night, she invites Jonathan and his family for her birthday dinner and introduces them to Nubia. In the middle of the party, Nubia disappears, and they find her sleeping in the storeroom, curled up beside Flavia's dog, Scuto. A few days later, Jonathan and his family accompany Flavia and Nubia to the town's harbour to see Marcus off on his trading voyage. Also with them was her father's partner, Titus Cordius Atticus, a sad man who lost his family, and his freedman who he considered adopting, Libertus.
Flavia promises to her father that she won't get into any trouble while he is away. Marcus sails off. As they walk back to their street, they notice a trail of blood leading from the opened door of Jonathan's house. There they discover that Bobas, their dog, has been killed and his killer had taken his head.
Nothing is stolen, and all that is left behind is a dice. After settling the ordeal, Miriam is sent to relatives to calm her down, and Jonathan, Flavia and Nubia agree to find the murderer. They first start questioning Flavia's household slaves, who assures them they saw and heard nothing at the time. Next they asked Libertus, who was the only person in the street at the time.
He tells them that he saw a frightened man running away with something in a leather bag. He gives them a few details, including the direction the man was running towards: the necropolis. As they go to the tombs, Scuto leads them to a man crying over a tomb. But as soon as he sees them, he shouts for them to take Scuto away, and that he hates dogs. Retreating, they return to the tomb to find that he is gone.
Then they notice that he was crying over a young girl's grave: Avita. They question Alma , Flavia's nursemaid and cook if she knew anything of the name. Alma tells them that the girl, Avita Procula, was the daughter of a sailor, Publius Avitus Proculus, who lived just up their street. Avita had died of a mad dog's bite while her father was away on a voyage. They ask Mordecai about the effect of a mad dog's bite, rabies. In the midst of their disscussion, they hear the pack of wild dogs barking out of the window, and Mordecai attacks them with a bow and arrow.
Looking out the window, Nubia spots a boy up a tree, climbing nimbly as the dogs barked up at him. Mordecai goes out into the necropolis with a long sword and is attacked by the leader of the wild dogs. Out of instinct, he defends himself and kills the dog by beheading it. Flavia, Nubia and Jonathan follow him out, and they urge the boy in the trees to come down.
However, he continues to climb higher, until a branch he was hanging on snaps, and he falls to the ground. Mordecai treats him in their home and tries to get him to talk.
However, they learn that his tongue has been cut out, therefore a mute. Flavia recognizes him as a beggar in the forum. Through gestures, they learn that his name is Lupus and he is an orphan. Mordecai then urges the girls to return to their home and invites Lupus to spend the night in theirs, and he accepts. Before she leaves, however, Flavia asks Lupus if he will help them in their investigation, and he agrees. The next morning, the four discuss their investigation, and Lupus draws the Avitus on Flavia's wax tablet.
They go over to Cordius' house, where Libertus is at, and show him the wax tablet with Lupus' drawing of Avitus. He recognizes the man as the one he saw running away the day of Bobas' murder.
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