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Then Jodd's voice roared out, "Move not, Olaf; move not, or you die." Another voice, that of Martina, broke in, "Silence, you fool, or you'll frighten him and make him fall. Silence all, and leave him to me!" Then quiet fell upon the place; it seemed that even the pursued grew quiet, and I heard the rustle of a woman's dress drawing towards me.
Now at each cry of Jodd's men leapt forward from the gathering crowd, and, to the number of fifty or more in all, marshalled themselves behind him, those of each nation standing shoulder to shoulder in little groups before me. "Is my question to be answered?" asked Jodd.
By this time they were many, and as the alarm spread minute by minute more arrived. "Yield or we attack," said he who had taken command of them. "I do not think that we yield," answered Jodd; and just then there came a sound of men running in ordered companies from the direction of the Northmen's barracks were Jodd's messenger had told his tale.
Round her were playing Jodd's children and my own, whom, in order to escape suspicion, we had sent thither till the time came for us to embark, since the people of Lesbos only knew of our scheme by rumour. "Whither do you go, Olaf?" she asked. "Back to the North, whence I came, Madam," I answered, "to save the lives of these," and I waved my hand towards the children. "If I bide here all must die.
Valhalla! Victory or Valhalla!" for which I, who had overheard Jodd's orders, was waiting. These were his orders that half of the Northmen should creep down behind the belt of trees in their dense shadow, and thus outflank the foe. Forth they sprang by companies of fifty, the moonlight gleaming on their mail, and there, three hundred yards away, a new battle was begun.
As she spoke I heard the guards salute without and Jodd's heavy step at the door of the chamber. "Greeting, General," he said presently. "I bring you good news. The messengers to the Sultan Harun have returned with the ransom.
I promise you that along with it something else shall be taken away, to wit your fool's head. Who are you that would dare to disarm an officer of the Imperial Guard?" After this there was no more talk of removing Jodd's axe, and he proceeded to give his evidence, which, as it only detailed what has been written already, need not be repeated.
"Let them drink from their own cup!" roared his companions, and then broke into a roar of laughter as one of the false judges, feeling space before him, leapt, leapt short, and with a shriek departed for ever. It was over. I heard someone enter the hall and whisper in Jodd's ear; heard his answer also. "Let her be brought hither," he said.
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