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About thirty miles this side of M'Arstuna, where Sorais lay, and ninety odd miles from Milosis, the road ran over a neck of land some two and a half miles in width, and flanked on either side by forest-clad hills which, without being lofty, would, if the road were blocked, be quite impracticable for a great baggage-laden army to cross.
Having heard this, I felt that I could die with a light heart, and then everything became a blank. When next I awoke the first thing I saw was the round disc of a sympathetic eyeglass, behind which was Good. 'How are you getting on, old chap? said a voice from the neighbourhood of the eyeglass. 'What are you doing here? I asked faintly. 'You ought to be at M'Arstuna have you run away, or what?
'M'Arstuna, he replied cheerfully. 'Ah, M'Arstuna fell last week you've been unconscious for a fortnight, you see with all the honours of war, you know trumpets blowing, flags flying, just as though they had had the best of it; but for all that, weren't they glad to go. Israel made for his tents, I can tell you never saw such a sight in my life. 'And Sorais? I asked.
But if our force was large, Sorais' was, according to the reports brought in day by day by our spies, much larger. She had taken up her headquarters at a very strong town called M'Arstuna, situated, as I have said, to the north of Milosis, and all the countryside was flocking to her standard.
I raised myself and asked what was the news, and they told me that a large body of cavalry sent by Curtis to assist the Queen had arrived from the scene of the battle, which they had left two hours after sundown. When they left, the wreck of Sorais' army was in full retreat upon M'Arstuna, followed by all our effective cavalry.
So, drawing half the people after her, Sorais was soon passing like a whirlwind through the Frowning City on her road to her headquarters at M'Arstuna, a fortress situated a hundred and thirty miles to the north of Milosis.
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