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V. Now Yahai, when he saw that he could by no means hold Toledo, because on the one hand the Moors would give it to the King of Badajoz, and on the other King Don Alfonso warred against it, he made a covenant with King Don Alfonso to yield the city to him, if he with the help of Alvar Fanez would put him in possession of Valencia, which had belonged unto Hicem and Alimaymon, his fathers, but which the Guazil Abdalla Azis held now as his own, calling himself King thereof.
Suddenly Pen's lips quivered. Just as the train began to move, "Jim!" she whispered. And she leaned over and caught his face between her hands and kissed him quickly on the lips. Then she slipped into the coach. Jim dropped off the train and stood staring unseeingly at Uncle Denny and Henderson. A to-hee sang its morning song from a nearby cactus: "O yahee! O yahai! Sweet as arrow weed in spring!"
I love you, O sweet as arrow weed in spring! "And beautiful girl, she say: 'I show you strongest thing in world. Come! And she take him by hand and lead him on toward elephant. And that elephant, all of a sudden, it stand still. They come up to it. They see it stand still because little To-hee bird, she circle round his head, sing him love songs. "'O yahee! O yahai!
But the men of Valencia who were not engaged on their side, and they also who held the castles round about, were greatly troubled because of this strife which was between them; and they also were divided between two opinions, they who were of the one wishing to give the kingdom to the King of Zaragoza, and they who were of the other to yield themselves unto Yahai the grandson of Alimaymon, because of the covenant which King Don Alfonso had made with him.
All her tired, yearning youth stood in her eyes. Jim spoke very slowly and clearly. "Penelope, I love you. Will you leave Saradokis and marry me?" Pen did not answer for a long moment. A to-hee trilled from the cedar: "O yahee! O yahai! Sweet as arrow weed in spring!" The Elephant lay motionless. The flag rippled and fluttered, a faint red spot far below on the mountainside.
It was with extreme regret and with full appreciation of what Jim had done for the Service that the Director asked for Jim's resignation, three months from date. Jim folded the letter and put it in his pocket. Then he stared out of the door at the Elephant. The great beast was silent in the after-glow. A to-hee cheeped sleepily in a nearby cholla: "O yahee! O yahai! Sweet as arrow weed in spring!"
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