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"Is that so?" asked Cormac of the Hebrew, pointedly. "It is so." "What is the name of the chief whose daughter has been so foolish as to run away from her friends?" "Gadarn," answered Beniah. "Oh! I know him!" exclaimed Cormac in some excitement, "and I know many of his people. I lived with them once, long, long ago. How far off is the camp, did you say?" "An hour's walk or so."
Beniah performed with powerful effect the task allotted to him, for, both by precept and example, he so set forth and obeyed the laws of God that the tone of society was imperceptibly elevated.
Let my dear mother and sister understand this clearly and comfort them if you can." "But where will you go to and what will you do?" asked the captain anxiously. "That I do not yet know. The forests are wide. There is plenty of room for man and beast. This only will I reveal to you. To-night I shall call at the hut of Beniah the Hebrew. He is a wise man and will advise me.
"You will therefore start for the Hot Swamp to-morrow, Beniah," he finally remarked, "and let Bladud know that the king desires his return to court immediately. I have been told by the king to send him this message. But keep your own counsel, Hebrew, and be careful not to let the prince know what you know, else it will go ill with you!
As may easily be understood, that chief was well pleased at the turn events had taken, for, to say truth, his little joke of trotting Beniah about the land and keeping him in perplexity, had begun to pall, and he had for some days past been hunting about for a plausible excuse for abandoning the search and going to visit King Hudibras.
Branwen obeyed, and succeeded so well, that old Beniah commended her on her aptitude to learn. "Now be careful," he added, when about to re-cross the bridge. "Your life may depend on your attention to my instructions." "But what if I should let the plank slip?" said she in sudden anxiety. "There is another in the cave on the floor.
"Wonderful old witch!" repeated Beniah, with a dazed look, and a tone of exasperation that the prince could not account for. "Do you, then, not know about that old woman?" "Oh! yes, I know only too much about her," replied Bladud. "She has been staying at the palace for some time, as you know, and rather a lively time the old hag has given us.
The queen used frequently to tell me so though she never said it was by `nature, and the king agreed with her though by the way he used to laugh, I don't think he thought light-heartedness to be very naughty. But come, Beniah, I am longing to hear what my father commissioned you to say or do." "Well, he was very particular in cautioning me not to tell what I know "
They act from morning to night in concert one consequence of which is that all is Harmony, and there is but one man at the helm, the consequence of which is, that all is Power. Harmony and Power! I have no faith, Beniah, in a divided command.
Yet I can scarcely claim it as mine, for my father and mother have not forsaken me, but I them." A few minutes more, and Bladud rose to depart. He took the bow and arrows in his left hand, and, totally forgetting for the moment the duty of keeping himself aloof from his fellow-men, he shook hands warmly with Beniah, patted the old woman kindly on the shoulder, and went out into the dark night.
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