Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 30, 2025
Company by company it rushed past them, shaking the earth with its footsteps, and as each section went by it tossed its spears into the air as a salute, crying: "Glory to the Mother! glory to the Snake!" and fled on towards the city. At length the story was done and the regiment was gone. "Well," said Leonard, "so far so good. Juanna, you are the bravest and cleverest girl in the whole world.
Juanna tried faintly to dissuade him, and Otter wished to come too, which was impossible. The end of it was that he went alone. First he revisited the Settlement men and tried to cheer them, and sadly did they need cheering. Then he passed to the great gates of the palace yard and looked through them.
Leonard, looking, saw before him a tall and handsome man of about fifty years of age, and saw also by many unmistakable signs that he was at the point of death. "Juanna," gasped her father, "is that you? Then you have escaped. Thank God! Now I can die happy." It would serve little purpose to set out in detail the broken conversation which followed, but by degrees Leonard learnt the story.
"Are you joking, Juanna?" said Leonard after a pause. "Look for yourself," she answered. He took the paper, and read and reread the notice.
She took it all for granted, and filled in the details with a liberal hand and in high colours. Juanna took it all for granted. Again she shivered, and her lips turned grey with pain. She understood now that she had loved him ever since the night when they first met in the slave camp. It was her love, as yet unrecognised, which, transforming her, had caused her to behave so badly.
Further, the said Soa agrees, on behalf of the said Juanna Rodd, that she, the said Juanna, will accompany her upon the journey, and will play among the said People of the Mist any part that may be required of her as necessary to the success of this undertaking. "IV. It is mutually agreed that these enterprises be prosecuted until the said Leonard Outram is satisfied that they are fruitless.
"See," he cried to Juanna, who all this while had sat with her hand before her eyes to shut out the vision of the dwarf's dreadful progress, "he has crossed safely!" and he pointed to a figure that appeared to be dancing with glee upon the breast of the snow slope. As he spoke a faint sound reached their ears, for in those immense silences sound can travel far.
The two white men went first, next came Juanna and Otter followed by Soa, and last of all walked the Settlement men. An hour's journey brought them to the bank of the river, which, dividing above it, engirdled the town, to reunite near the roadway that they followed. Here canoes were ready to take them across to the island, or rather the peninsula, on which the city was built.
"I will be frank with you, Deliverer," answered the high-priest, when Juanna had translated his question, "since the truth cannot hurt me, for now we know too much of one another's secrets to waste time in bandying lies.
Perhaps a peep into the future will tell us the rest of the story of Leonard and Juanna Outram better and more truly than any further chronicling of events.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking