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"They would," said Ghek. "I will ask Luud about it." The following day he told her that Luud had said that she was to be taken into the fields. He would try that for a time and see if she improved. "If you do not grow fatter he will send for you anyway," said Ghek; "but he will not use you for food." Tara of Helium shuddered.
I may come and go at will, through the ancient burrows of the ulsios; but you are too large for that and your lungs need more air than may be found in some of the deeper runways." "But U-Thor!" exclaimed Gahan. "Have you heard aught of him or his intentions?" "I have heard much," replied Ghek. "He camps at The Gate of Enemies.
If they can fight twenty and thirty men at once, all by themselves, it doesn't seem to me that you think much of my safety when you want to lock them up somewhere instead of using them to keep your daughter safe from that particularly horrible Ghek!" Don Loris swore in a cracked voice. Then he said: "To end the argument I'll think it over. Until tomorrow. Now go away!"
"Bad! Somebody's pistol went empty and the local boys found it out. Now we'll have to fight some more no." He beckoned to a listening, tense, resentful inhabitant of the castle. He held up the key of the room in which he'd locked young Ghek. "Now open the castle gate," he commanded, "and fetch out my last three men, and we'll leave without setting fire to anything.
"And speaking of happiness," she added in a different tone, "this Nedda...." He shuddered, and she said: "I talked to her. So then I sent for Ghek. We're on perfectly good terms again, you know. I introduced him to Nedda. She was vanilla ice cream with meringue and maple syrup on it. He loved it! She gazed at him with pretty sadness and told him how terrible it was of him to kidnap me.
"You need have no fear of treachery," said Ghek "My only hope of life lies in you." "And if you fail me," Gahan admonished him, "I can promise you as sure a death as even your king might guarantee you." Ghek made no reply, but moved rapidly through the winding subterranean corridors until Gahan began to realize how truly was he in the hands of this strange monster.
For example, there is enmity between Don Loris and the young Lord Ghek. If the young Lord Ghek is as enterprising as he should be, some of his retainers should be lying in wait to cut our throats as we approach Don Loris' stronghold." "Hm-m-m," said Hoddan grimly. But Thal seemed undisturbed. "This system of gifts and presents sounds complicated.
"What have all the brains of all the kaldanes that have ever lived done to compare with that single idea of a single red man?" Ghek was stumped. Being a kaldane he knew that brains spelled the sum total of universal achievement, but it had never occurred to him that they should be put to use in practical and profitable ways.
Three other warriors pressed behind the two in front, craning their necks to view the prisoner while they grinned at the discomfiture of their fellow. The officer scowled at Ghek. "Thy tongue is as venomous as that of the she-banth O-Tar sent to The Towers of Jetan," he said.
This could have revealed that the newcomers were strangers, but Ghek would have recruited new and extra retainers for the emergency of tonight. There would be many strange faces in his castle just now. "Good fight, eh?" bellowed an ancient, long-retired retainer with a wine bottle in his hand. "Good fight!" agreed Thal. "Good plunder, eh?" bellowed the ancient above the heads of younger men.
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