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Updated: May 6, 2025
In the dead of night Bladud went out softly and sought the hut where Captain Arkal and Maikar slept. He found them conversing in great sorrow about the terrible calamity that had overtaken their friend when he entered. They started up in surprise to receive him. "Keep off," he said, shrinking back. "Touch me not! I know not whether the disease may not be catching even at its present stage.
"That may be so, but I know though it is not easy to remember how I came to know it that Gunrig had been insolent enough to make up to her, after he was defeated by Bladud, and she was so afraid of him that she ran away, and thus fell into the hands of robbers." While the chief was speaking, Hudibras clenched his hands and glared fiercely.
Now tell me when are you going away to tell my father and brothers about me?" "I shall probably start to-morrow. But many days must pass before I can bring them here, for, as you know, their town is a long way off. But, child, you do not seem to reflect that you have betrayed me." "How?" asked Branwen, wonderingly. "Did you not thrust out the plank and cross over before the very eyes of Bladud?"
Here was an opportunity of which Bladud was not slow to avail himself. Although the arm which held it was slightly wounded, he gave the shield a violent and sudden twist, which not only held the weapon fast but nearly wrenched it out of the chief's hand.
Pondering over the circumstances of the strange being from whom he had just parted, Bladud proceeded to the summit of the hill, or ridge of high land, on the other side of which lay the region in which he had made up his mind to end his days.
Boiling over as he was with indignation, Gunrig felt as if he was endued with more than usual strength. He lifted the stone with ease, faced the platform, heeled the line, and hurled the stone violently over his head, so that it fell with a heavy thud far behind him. Then Bladud took it up. "Oh! what a stout man he is!" whispered Branwen to Hafrydda, "and what a handsome face!"
"Besides, I feel sure that the Boong-jee-gop has some influence over him. Yes, I think we are safe." "Well, now," she continued, resuming the interrupted conversation, "it seems to me that the only course open to me is to appear to Bladud as a girl some day, and see if he recognises me.
The legendary king Bladud is said to have first discovered the Bath waters twenty-seven hundred years ago, and to have built a town there and dedicated the medicinal springs to Minerva, so that "Bladud's Well" has passed into a proverb of sparkling inexhaustibility.
Captain Arkal and Maikar had also saved their swords and knives, these having been attached to their girdles at the time they leaped from the wreck. They were somewhat inferior weapons to those worn by Bladud, being made of bronze.
The prince did not reply, but led the way towards a neighbouring cliff. "Don't you think we had better make our fire in the woods, Bladud?" asked the captain. "That would oblige one of us to watch in case natives or wolves should attack us, and none of us are in a fit state to watch. We must sleep." "But I can't sleep without first eating," said Maikar in a remonstrative tone.
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