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Updated: May 9, 2025
A tuft of white hair rose on his skull like the crest of a bird; and he indicated his disguise, as it lay on the ground, with an ironic glance. "You have done well, Iddibal! 'Tis well!" Then piercing him, as it were, with his keen gaze: "No one yet suspects?" The old man swore to him by the Kabiri that the mystery had been kept.
Hamilcar turned pale, and then quickly replied: "Let him come up!" Iddibal entered without prostrating himself. He held a young boy, covered with a goat's-hair cloak, by the hand, and at once raised the hood which screened his face. "Here he is, Master! Take him!" The Suffet and the slave went into a corner of the room.
As he bent his steps towards the purple factories he passed before the ergastulum, which was a long house of black stone built in a square pit with a small pathway all round it and four staircases at the corners. Iddibal was doubtless waiting until the night to finish his signal. "There is no hurry yet," thought Hamilcar; and he went down into the prison.
At last Hamilcar attracted Salammbo with a sign and said to her in a low voice: "You will keep him with you, you understand! No one, even though belonging to the house, must know of his existence!" Then, behind the door, he again asked Iddibal whether he was quite sure that they had not been noticed. "No!" said the slave, "the streets were empty."
As the war filled all the provinces he had feared for his master's son. Then, not knowing where to hide him, he had come along the coasts in a sloop, and for three days Iddibal had been tacking about in the gulf and watching the ramparts.
The Negress threw herself upon the floor to kiss his feet; he raised her brutally. "Where have you left him, Iddibal?" "Down there, Master;" and extricating herself from her veils, she rubbed her face with her sleeve; the black colour, the senile trembling, the bent figure disappeared, and there remained a strong old man whose skin seemed tanned by sand, wind, and sea.
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