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Updated: June 29, 2025
'I like the look of you, my good Basil; who knows but we may be friends? By the bye, was there not some special reason for your coming to see me? 'Your excellence summoned me. 'Yes, yes, I remember. That affair of the Gothic wench. Bessas checked himself, glanced at the envoy, and corrected his phrase. 'The Gothic lady, I would say, who has somehow been spirited out of sight.
Bessas had just received despatches from Cumae, which acquainted him with the story of Veranilda's disappearance, so far as it was known to Chorsoman; he wore a heavy brow about the business, swore that the Gothic damsel should be found, if it cost the skins of all who had had anything to do with her.
On the morrow Bessas himself paid a visit to that famous museum of sculpture, and after an inspection, which left no possible hiding-place unsearched, sent away to the Palatine everything that seemed to him worth laying hands upon. Meanwhile the domestics had all been held under guard.
Perhaps she did not yet understand the import of their inquiry. That it was she who held Veranilda prisoner he had less doubt than ever, and boldly he declared his conviction. But even, whilst speaking, he thought with dread of the possibility of Veranilda's being delivered to Bessas; for who could assure him that this sinister-looking Thracian would respect the mandate received from Byzantium?
'For I have that to tell you which makes the matter grave enough. We were right, you see, in our guess of Veranilda's origin; I could wish she had been any one else. Patience, patience! You know that I left you here to go to Neapolis. There I received letters from Rome, one of them from Bessas himself, and, by strange hazard, the subject of it was the daughter of Ebrimut.
Of Bessas she did not think as of a man easy to subdue or to cajole; his soldierly rudeness, the common gossip of his inconstancy in love, and his well-known avarice, were not things likely to touch her imagination, nor had she ever desired to number him in the circle of her admirers.
'So this is the heir of the Senator Maximus, said Bessas, much as he might have spoken of viewing a horse that interested him. 'What is his name? 'Basilius, my lord, replied Marcian, with grave respect. 'And what is he doing? Why does not a limber lad like that serve the Emperor?
And the other in a low voice made answer that he knew where she was knew but too well. 'I shall not ask you to tell me the secret, said Heliodora, with a smile. 'Gracious lady, pursued Marcian, 'it is for the purpose of revealing it to you that I am here. Veranilda is in the palace, held in guard by Bessas till she can have escort to Constantinople. 'Ha! You are sure of that?
For Heliodora still had faith in the prophecy of her astrologer; she was more resolute than ever in her resolve to triumph over Bessas; she could gain nothing to this end by helping her confederate's ruin.
"I guess there aren't many things Jaff Chayne can't do in Albania," replied Liosha. "He has the bessas that carry him through and he's as brave as a lion." "I suppose you like brave men?" said Doria. "A woman who married a coward would be a damn fool especially in Albania. I guess there aren't many in my mountains." "I wish you would tell us about your mountains," said Barbara pleasantly.
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