Still, there are those to whom you must answer for his blood, and I only can protect you from them." "Or betray me to them," said Leo.

"Khania, what do you seek ?" "That answer which you should have given me this twelve hours gone.
Remember, before you speak, that I alone can save your life--aye, and will do it and clothe you with that dead madman's crown and mantle." "You shall have your answer on yonder Mountain," said Leo, pointing to the peak above us, "where I seek mine." She paled a little and replied, "To find that it is death, for, as I have told you, the place is guarded by savage folk who know no pity." "So be it.

Then Death is the answer that we seek.

Come, Horace, let us go to meet him." "I swear to you," she broke in, "that there dwells not the woman of your dreams.

I am that woman, yes, even I, as you are the man of mine." "Then, lady, prove it yonder upon the Mountain," Leo answered.
"There dwells there no woman," Atene went on hurriedly, "nothing dwells there.