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Actæon had followed his friend, breaking away from the sacred squadron, and witnessed the dialogue without understanding a word, although he guessed something disagreeable by the Celtiberian's pale face. "Bad news?" he asked Alorcus. "My father is dying, and he has sent for me." "What shall you do?" "I must go immediately. My people demand my presence."
Alorcus wore the crown he had won, and Actæon, riding beside him on one of the Celtiberian's horses, smiled at the crowd, which regarded him with a certain respect as if he were Sónnica's husband and in possession of her enormous riches.
The two horsemen began the descent to the city, followed by the Celtiberian messenger. Actæon sympathized with his comrade's emotion. At the same time the curiosity of the traveler, so often aroused by the Celtiberian's tales, was awakened within him. "Do you wish me to accompany you, Alorcus?" The young man received the proposition with a look of gratitude.
They feared the conditions set by Hannibal, and they read their harshness in the Celtiberian's hesitation in pronouncing them. "The conditions! Tell us the conditions!" they shouted from all sides of the Forum.
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