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One of his followers shifted his sword belt, and, half drawing the great weapon, stepped forward; but Marcia had sprung from the rheda, and stood, with clenched hands and flashing eyes, above her prostrate attendant. "Bandits! Murderers!" she cried. "Does your general permit you to rob and kill travellers that seek to enter a friendly city?"
The driver's whip curled about the horses' flanks, and they started forward; but the disappointed innkeeper laid hold of one of the poles that supported the covering of the rheda and gasped and sputtered as he ran: "What now! Would you die of the heat? Am I to lose my custom because I am good-natured and tell the news?"
A porter, in costume much richer than those worn by most free Romans, lounged on a stool set upon the mosaic pavement, and roused himself lazily to shuffle down and inquire why the rheda had halted before his door. "Ah! It was a lady" and he smirked with insolent meaning "who desired to see his master?" He threw out his hands with a deprecatory gesture.
The occasion of all this demonstration was a party that had halted, apparently for refreshment and the customary traveller's siesta; a rheda or four-wheeled travelling carriage, closely covered and drawn by three powerful horses yoked abreast.
"That is the philosophy of these times. I am convinced that there were days, and women but pah! now it is only glory that is worthy to be a man's bride. Come, I will lead you to the house of Calavius." Ligurius had recovered sufficiently to remount his horse, while Mago's attendants had laid the still senseless Caipor in the rheda to which their master now assisted Marcia.
He vanished with wonderful speed, and, a moment later, there appeared a man somewhat above middle age, with a close-curling, white beard, and clad in a robe so heavily embroidered with gold as to leave the ground colour a matter of conjecture. With keen eyes that shifted nervously, he hurried down toward the rheda.
"Drive on," said Marcia, for they had all drawn rein, half unconsciously, and she lay back, behind the curtains of the rheda. A harsh cry of command or warning rang out ahead, and the rheda stopped short with a jolt.
Next morning he was extremely stiff, and found himself obliged to continue on his couch. "It is of no use your trying to get up," Scopus said; "the muscles of your flank are badly torn, and you must remain quiet." An hour later a rheda or four wheeled carriage drove up to the door, and in another minute Norbanus entered Beric's cubicle.
A distance of one hundred miles was no extraordinary day's journey for him in a rheda, such as we have described it.
A distance of one hundred miles was no extraordinary day's journey for him in a rheda, such as we have described it.
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