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It was of plain and somewhat massive gold, and deeply cut into the shield-faced bezel was the Outram crest, a hand holding a drawn sword, beneath which the motto was engraved. "What is the last word of the motto?" she went on; "it is so rubbed that I cannot read it 'For Home, Honour " "'And Heart," said Leonard. Juanna blushed, though why the word "heart" should make her blush she knew not.
I fancy that our friends, the slave-dealers yonder, have had enough of our company, and are scarcely likely to follow us." Juanna turned a shade paler, and answered: "I trust so. At least I have had enough of them. By the way, Mr.
Who are they, and what the deuce are they doing here? One thing is clear: I never saw a finer-looking man nor a prettier girl." And he filled his pipe again, replaced the eyeglass in his eye, and began smoking. Ten minutes later Juanna sat up suddenly, whereupon the stranger withdrew out of sight.
So Juanna thought and felt. A little more experience of the world might have taught her differently. But she had no experience, and in such novels as she had read the hero seldom varied in the pursuit of his first love, or turned to look upon another. Ah! if all heroes and heroines acted up to this golden rule, what an uncommonly dull world it would be!
"I only hope that the brute did not swallow the rubies as well as their bearer," said Leonard to Juanna; "not that there is much chance of our getting them, anyway." Then Olfan went, nor did he return till the afternoon, when he announced that Nam and his two principal priests waited without to speak with them. Juanna ordered that they should be admitted, and presently they came in.
Then there was silence for a minute or more, till Leonard, believing that he had got his answer, began to think that he would do well to leave her for a while. Just as he was about to rise Juanna made a gentle movement; slowly, very slowly, she turned herself, slowly she stretched out her arms towards him, and laid her head upon his breast.
Then Nam staggered past her, hissing curses, while the untiring Otter rained blows upon his back, and losing sight of Olfan and his companions they went on in safety, till they reached the neck and saw the ice-bridge glittering before them and the wide fields of snow beyond. "Which way are we to go now?" said Juanna; "must we climb down this great gulf?"
Leonard suppressed an exclamation with difficulty, for here was Juanna appearing in a new light indeed. "I am answered, Queen," said Olfan in tones of deep depression. "Now, if it pleases you, will you end your tale?" "There is not much to tell," replied Juanna, heaving a sigh of relief, for this cross-examination as to her exact relations with Leonard had been somewhat trying.
Before they went to sleep Leonard looked into the courtyard, and was somewhat alarmed to find that guards were stationed at every door, while in front of those leading to the apartments of Juanna and Otter stood a body of priests with torches in their hands.
Juanna made no reply, and the priest went. "Here is a pretty business," said Leonard. "That idiot Otter has upset everything. We might have become millionaires for the asking, and now we must wait for months before we so much as get sight of a ruby or a sapphire." Nobody answered. Indeed, the whole party were plunged into consternation at the fatal effects of this accident.
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