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Then she went on lengthening out the tresses that curled back again at the end like something instinct with life. How long it had been in coming! gradual journeys up from those Southern shores, and slumber in some comrade's care till a flag of truce could bear it across beneath the shelter of its white wing. Months had passed. And where was Beltran now?
Still they wind away in their gladness, when hurriedly Beltran reaches his hand for the heedless Vivia's, and hurriedly she sees terrifying grooves spreading round them, a great web-work of cracks, the awful ice lifts itself, sinks, and out of a monstrous fissure chill death rises to meet them and ingulf them.
'These persons, on their return, continued Beltran, 'reported that they had followed the river till they came to a large mountain of perpendicular rocks, which it was impossible to climb, and over these rocks fell the water.
'Before I can make such an attempt, said he, 'I must learn who you are, and what you want. 'My name is Beltran. I am a Frank by birth, but for nine years I have been an inhabitant of Egypt. 'Nine years! exclaimed Walter. 'By the Holy Cross, you must know the country well-nigh as intimately as the Egyptians themselves.
Who chops off the head of the Emir Aboo What-d'ye-call'im, just as the latter has cut over the cruel Don Beltran de Cuchillay &c.? Who, attracted to the Jewish quarter by the shrieks of the inhabitants who are being slain by the Moorish soldiery, and by a little boy by the name of Ben Davids, who recognizes the knight by his shield, finds Isaac of York egorge on a threshold, and clasping a large back-kitchen key?
'Even so, replied Bisset; 'and for both circumstances we are wholly indebted to Beltran, the Christian renegade.
They carried everything from the fort save the fort itself and the two lombards. In the narrow paths that are this world's roads, one man must walk after another, and their column seems endless where it winds and is lost and appears again. Beltran and I were no longer bound. Nor were we treated unkindly, starved nor hurt in any way. All that waited until we should reach Caonabo's town.
'On my faith, said Walter, 'I do own that such a pursuit would be irksome; and I hardly think that my patience would brook so much delay. 'However, said Beltran, suddenly raising his hand and pointing forward, 'there lies before you the city of the caliph.
To Spain was gone Sancho, but Beltran the cook stayed with us. Pedro and Fernando also. Time passed. With the ending of January the heat increased. The butio knew all manner of simples; he was doctor and priest together. He had a very simple magic. He himself did not expect it to reach the Great Spirit, but it might affect the innumerable zemes or under and under-under spirits.
"Now, Raymond Lamar! if you talk so, you sha'n't read the letter!" "I don't want to read it." "Have you left off loving Beltran, because he differs from you?" "Left off loving Beltran!" Vivia waited a moment, leaning on the back of his chair, and then Ray, bending, covered his face with his hands, and the large tears oozed from between his brown fingers.
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