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If ever Fate should rob me of my eyes, I wonder, when I had nothing more to give them, if three hundred faithful swords would follow me to ruin and to exile?" Thus he thought aloud. Afterwards he, Jodd and some others, Martina among them, went aside, leaving me seated on a bench. Presently they returned, and Constantine said, "General Olaf, I and your companions have taken counsel. Listen.
To you I could plead, but not to them, though they blind me with their bodkins after they have stabbed me with their tongues. Excellency, a last boon! Call in your guard and kill me." "Madam, I said that I had decided, and all the women in the world will not change my mind in this way or in that. Jodd, do my bidding." Jodd struck a bell, once only, which was the signal for the messenger.
Then came this pregnant sentence: "We command you, with your wife and children and your lieutenant, the Captain Jodd, with his wife and children, to lay down your offices and report yourselves with all speed to Us at our Court of Byzantium, that we may confer with you on certain matters.
"What tidings, Jodd?" "None that are good, General. The bishop, he says, was killed by Moslems a while ago, or so he had been told." "God rest him. But the others, Jodd, what of the others?" "This. It seems that the Copt, as he called him, Magas, returned from a long journey, as we know he did, and raised an insurrection somewhere in the south of Egypt, far up the Nile.
Those dangers of which you speak must be shared by another." "That is so, and it troubles me much. Indeed, it is in my mind to seek some other guide, for I think this one would be safest here in your charge. You must reason with her, Jodd. One can ask too much, even of a god-mother." "Of a god-mother! Why not say of a grandmother? By Thor! Olaf, you are blind indeed. Still, I'll try.
Oh! this is the bitterest drop in all my cup, that I who for a score of years ruled the world must live to suffer the insults of such as you." "Then why not die and have done?" asked the imperturbable Jodd. "Or, if you lack the courage, why not submit to the decree of the Emperor, as so many have submitted to your decree, instead of troubling the general here with prayers for mercy?
Know that I go to Egypt to search for Heliodore." "Be comforted again," said Martina. "This you could not have done until the peace was signed; it would have been against your oath and duty." "That is so," I answered heavily. "Olaf," said Martina to me that night after Jodd had left us, "you say that you will go to Egypt. How will you go?
If I am killed, or do not return within eight months, I have named you to be Governor of Lesbos, as already you have been named my deputy by Constantine, which appointment will probably be confirmed." "I do not want to be Governor of Lesbos," said Jodd. "Moreover, Olaf," he added slowly, "a blind beggar must have his dog to lead him, his brown dog. You cannot go alone, Olaf.
The spokesman thus reminded of the shrill boy's presence, introduced him. 'Doctor Ginery Dunkle, sir. A gentleman of great poetical elements. He has recently jined us here, sir, and is an acquisition to us, sir, I do assure you. Yes, sir. Mr Jodd, sir. Mr Izzard, sir. Mr Julius Bib, sir. 'Julius Washington Merryweather Bib, said the gentleman himself TO himself. 'I beg your pardon, sir.
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