I think that soon he will return again with a thousand at his back, and then----" "What is in your mind ?" asked Oliver.

"To fly from Mur ?" "How can we fly," she answered, "when the pass is guarded by Joshua's men, and the Fung wait for us without?
The Abati hate you, my friends, and now that you have done your work I think that they will kill you if they can, whom they bore with only till it was done.

Alas! alas! that I should have brought you to this false and ungrateful country," and she began to weep, while we stared at each other, helpless.
Then Japhet, who all this while had been crouched on the floor, rocking himself too and fro and mourning in his Eastern fashion for Quick, whom he had loved, rose, and, coming to the Child of Kings, prostrated himself before her.
"O Walda Nagasta," he said, "hear the words of your servant.

Only three miles away, near to the mouth of the pass, are encamped five hundred men of my own people, the Mountaineers, who hate Prince Joshua and his following.

Fly to them, O Walda Nagasta, for they will cleave to you and listen to me whom you have made a chief among them.