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Updated: June 25, 2025
Good ceased his sighing, and began to murder Zu-Vendi at the top of his voice, and Sir Henry whistled and looked silly. As for the poor girls, they were utterly dumbfounded. And Nyleptha! she drew herself up till her frame seemed to tower even above that of the tall guards, and her face went first red, and then pale as death.
On the morrow I saw Curtis and Nyleptha with him, and he told me the whole history of what had happened since Umslopogaas and I galloped wildly away from the battle to save the life of the Queen. It seemed to me that he had managed the thing exceedingly well, and showed great ability as a general.
'I knew that he would win; and they called him Outlander, and shook their wise heads when I gave him the command! Last night at sundown, sayest thou, and it is not yet dawn? Surely 'Throw a cloak around thee, Nyleptha, I broke in, 'and give us wine to drink; ay, and call thy maidens quick if thou wouldst save thyself alive. Nay, stay not.
Good and Umslopogaas had gone on with the army, but Nyleptha accompanied Sir Henry and myself to the city gates, riding a magnificent white horse called Daylight, which was supposed to be the fleetest and most enduring animal in Zu-Vendis.
'I tell thee I will tear thee, Nyleptha, the White Queen, from thy throne, and that thou shalt be hurled ay, hurled even from the topmost stair of the great way to the foot thereof, in that thou hast covered the name of the House of him who built it with black shame. And as for thee, Incubu, thou shalt die in yet another fashion that I will not tell thee now.
'I plead for mercy! she said and at that moment the Queen entered, accompanied by Sir Henry and Good, and took her seat with an impassive face. As for poor Good, he looked intensely ill at ease. 'Greeting, Sorais! said Nyleptha, after a short pause.
As one of the poets says, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned', more especially if the woman is a queen and a Sorais, and indeed I feared the very worst, including imminent danger to ourselves. 'Nyleptha had better be told of this at once, I said, 'and perhaps I had better tell her; she might receive your account with suspicion. 'Who is captain of her guard tonight? I went on. 'Good.
Oh, Nyleptha, I will never leave thee; here and now for thy dear sake I will forget my people and my father's house, yea, I renounce them all. By thy side will I live, Nyleptha, and at thy side will I die. He paused and gazed at her earnestly, but she hung her head like a lily, and said never a word. 'Look! he went on, pointing to the statue on which the moonlight played so brightly.
Nyleptha looked at him in a curious sort of way, and said in a dry little voice, 'Thinkest thou so, my lord? 'Eh? said Curtis. 'No, I do not see what is the use of keeping him. She said nothing, but continued looking at him in a way that was as shy as it was sweet. Then at last he understood. 'Forgive me, Nyleptha, he said, rather tremulously.
Next a man with a long white wand of ivory appeared just in front of the right-hand throne, and cried out something in a loud voice, ending with the word Nyleptha, repeated three times; and another man, similarly attired, called out a similar sentence before the other throne, but ending with the word Sorais, also repeated thrice.
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