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"Then let her remain in the charge of the Captain Jodd," I exclaimed angrily, "and in your charge, Martina, who are accustomed to attending upon her, and know that you are both answerable for her safety with your lives. Send the captain of the ship to me and prepare a discharge for him. I will not see this woman till he has sailed, since until then I am commanded to keep all secret.
"You may pardon here, Olaf," said Jodd, "and your God may pardon hereafter, but we, the Northmen, do not pardon. Blindfold those men and bind their arms. Now," went on Jodd after a pause, "their turn has come to show us sport. Run, friends, run, for swords are behind you. Can you not feel them?" The rest may be guessed.
Remember it, all you who shall have charge of Olaf in his bonds, and, if she be within hearing, let the Augusta Irene remember it also, lest another time there should be no Olaf to save her life." Now I could see that the judges were terrified. Hastily, with white faces, they consulted together as to whether they should order Jodd to be seized.
"Aye, certainly, unless I should die first, and perhaps even then. You do not understand? Oh! of course you do not understand, nor can I stop to explain to you. Captain Jodd, I am going to Egypt with a certain blind beggar, whose name I forget at the moment, but who is my uncle, where no doubt I shall see many strange things.
"The Empress has offered to share her crown with me, Jodd, but, friends, it cannot be, because of this lady to whom I am affianced." "Marry them both," shouted a rude voice, but Jodd replied: "Then that is soon settled. Out of our path, Olaf, and look the other way. When you turn your head again there will be no Empress to trouble you, except one of your own choosing."
Here are letters for you from Byzantium. Jodd has brought them from the ship." "Where is Jodd?" I said. "Without, in the company of the captain of the ship, some guards, and a prisoner." "What prisoner?" "Perchance the letters will tell you," she replied evasively. "Have I your command to open and read? They are marked 'Most Secret."
On a certain day in early summer it was the anniversary of my marriage in Egypt Heliodore and I had dined with but two guests. Those guests were Jodd, the great Northman, my lieutenant, and his wife, Martina, for within a year of our return to Lesbos Jodd and Martina had married.
You'll not take from me my last blessing, the light of day. Think what it means " "The General Olaf should know well enough," interrupted Jodd, but I waved him to be silent, and answered, "Tell me, Madam, how can I do otherwise? It seems to me that my life and that of my wife and children hang upon this deed.
At any rate, from that time forward Martina grew more gentle with Jodd, and when other children were born they seemed happy together. Well, we four had dined, and it comes to me that our talk turned upon the Caliph Harun and his wonderful goodness to us, whom as Christians he was bound to despise and hate.
"I have been told, lawyer," answered Jodd, "that once there lived another monarch, one called Xerxes, who thought that he would make an end of a certain three hundred Greeks, when Greeks were different from what you are to-day, at a place called Thermopylae. He made an end of them, but they cost him more than he cared to pay, and now it is those Greeks who live for ever and Xerxes who is dead.
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