Then came the Lord Orme and the Doctor Adams, and with them your brother Japhet, who had barely escaped with their lives from the cave city, and knowing that I was no longer safe in the palace, where even my sleeping-room has been drenched with blood, with them I have fled to you for succour.

Will you not protect me, O men of the mountain-side ?" "Yes, yes," they answered with a great shout.

"Command we obey.

What shall we do, O Child of Kings ?" Now Maqueda called the officers of the regiment apart and consulted with them, asking their opinions, one by one.

Some of them were in favour of finding out where Joshua might be, and attacking him at once.