If we give you the maid and man, will you go ?" "Go get them," she answered.

"And take with you this my command to Cherkis--that HE return with the two!" For an instant Kulun hesitated.

Up thrust the dreadful arms, poised themselves to strike.
"It shall be so," he shouted.

"I carry your command." He leaped back, his red mail flashed toward a turret that held, I supposed, a stairway.

He was lost to sight.