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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Now, Konar, give them a tune from your pipe," said Gadarn, whose eyes were blazing with excitement. The hunter of the Swamp obeyed, and it seemed as though a mammoth bull of Bashan had been suddenly let loose on the fugitives.
This arrangement worked admirably until the families became large, and the younger members obstreperous, when the internal doors were occasionally, even frequently, shut. He also built a snug house for Konar, and made him Hunter-General to the Royal Household.
Magin, roused by the stopping of the boat, sat up, stretching. "Tiens!" he exclaimed. "Here we are!" He looked about at the high clay banks enclosing the tawny basin of the four rivers. In front of him the konar trees of Bund-i-Kir showed their dark green. At the right, on top of the bluff of the eastern shore, a solitary peasant stood white against the sky.
He dwelt with his mother Ortrud to the end of her days in a small house not far from the residence of Konar. Gunrig's mother also dwelt with them not that she had any particular regard for them personally, but in order that she might be near to the beautiful girl who had been beloved by her son. Gadarn, the great northern chief, ever afterwards paid an annual visit to Swamptown.
"Arkal," said the prince, turning to the captain, "I will leave you in charge here, and start off by the first light to-morrow morning. See that poor Konar is well cared for. Maikar, you will accompany me, and I suppose, Dromas, that you also will go." "Of course," said Dromas, with a meaning smile so full of meaning, indeed, as to be quite beyond interpretation.
I am sent on a mission to you, but that is not so urgent as the case of Konar." As he spoke the young men laid the senseless form on the ground. Bladud, at once dismissing all other subjects from his mind, examined him carefully, while Brownie snuffed at him with sympathetic interest.
"Another night like the last would turn my hair grey," he said, as we bade him good-bye. Truly the lot of a Persian telegraph official is not always a bed of roses. A gradual descent of over two thousand feet leads from Konar Takta to the village of Dalaki, which is situated on a vast plain, partly cultivated, the southern extremity of which is washed by the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Konar agreed at once, for a new light burst upon him, and the idea of living to serve other people, and not merely to feed himself, seemed to put new life into him. "Do you really mean to build a town here?" asked Dromas, when he heard his friend giving orders to his men to erect a large booth to shelter them all for some time to come. "Indeed, I do.
On carrying Konar up to the village of the Swamp afterwards Swamptown, later Aquae Sulis, ultimately Bath which had already begun to grow on the nearest height, they found that Bladud and his party had just arrived from the last of the searching expeditions. "What! Beniah?" exclaimed the prince, when the Hebrew met him. "You have soon returned to us. Is all well at home?" "All is well.
Having laid the foundations of the new town, drawn out his plans and set his men to work, Bladud appointed Captain Arkal superintendent, and set out on his quest after his lost friend Cormac, taking Dromas and Maikar along with him and four of the men one of them being Konar the hunter. Brownie was also an important member of the party, for his master hoped much from his power of scent.
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