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"Pull me up, boy," she said. She wound a leg about the staff, and, taking hold, he drew her up as if she had been a feather. "If I had a hundred mouths I would kiss you for that," she said, still mocking; "but having only one, I'll give it to the cat, and weep for Golgothar." "Silly jade," he said, and turned towards his tent.

"If I had a hundred men so strong," said Golgothar, "I would go and conquer Nooni, the city of our foes." Because he had not the hundred men he did not go; and Nooni still sent insults to the country of Golgothar, and none could travel safe between the capitals. And Golgothar was sorry.

"If Golgothar had a hundred wives " said a voice to the strong man as he entered the castle gates. Looking up he saw Sapphire. He stretched out his hand to her in joy and friendship. " I would not be one of them," she added, with a mocking laugh, as she dropped from the wall, leaped the moat by the help of her staff, and danced away laughing.

"I have lost Dalice!" he said, and fondled the rosary Dalice used to carry when she lived; and he would speak to the man no more. By that place called Peradventure in the Voshti Hills dwelt Golgothar the strong man, who, it was said, could break an iron pot with a blow, or pull a tall sapling from the ground.

"If I had a hundred men so strong," said Golgothar, "I would go among the thousand brigands of Mirnan, and bring again the beloved daughter of our city." Because he had not the hundred men the beloved lady languished in her prison, for the brigands asked as ransom the city of Talgone which they hated.

And Golgothar carried in his breast a stone image she had given him, and for very grief let no man speak her name before him. "If I had a hundred men so strong " said Golgothar, one day, standing on a great point of land and looking down the valley. As he said it, he heard a laugh, and looking down he saw Sapphire, or Laugh of the Hills, as she was called.

And Golgothar made a feast of remembrance to them, and tears dripped on his beard when he said: "Hail and Farewell!" "If I had a hundred men so strong," said Golgothar, "I would go against the walls of chains our rebels built, and break them one by one."

"If I had a hundred men so strong," said Golgothar, "I would with great stones mend the broken pier, and the bridge between the islands should not fall." Because he had not the hundred men, at last the bridge gave way, and a legion of the king's army were carried to the whirlpool, where they fought in vain.

"If I had a hundred men so strong," said Golgothar, "I would clear the wild boar from the forests, that the children should not fear to play among the trees." Because he had not the hundred men the graves of children multiplied, and countless mothers sat by empty beds and mourned. And Golgothar put his head between his knees in trouble for them.

Because he had not the hundred men, the chain walls blocked the only pass between the hills, and so cut in two the kingdom: and they who pined for corn went wanting, and they who yearned for fish stayed hungry. And Golgothar, brooding, said his heart bled for his country.