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Updated: May 26, 2025
Taking it out, I made a little sketch of a lake, and then as best I could I drew the underground river and the lake at the other end. When I had done this I advanced to the steps of the throne and gave it to her. She understood it at once and clapped her hands with delight, and then descending from the throne took it to her sister Sorais, who also evidently understood.
Then Nyleptha turned and addressed the man who appeared to be in command of the bodyguard, apparently from her manner and his frequent obeisances, giving him very stringent and careful orders; after which, with a somewhat coquettish nod and smile, she left the hall, followed by Sorais and most of the guards.
'Sorais oh, Sorais is a prisoner; they gave her up, the scoundrels, he added, with a change of tone 'sacrificed the Queen to save their skins, you see. She is being brought up here, and I don't know what will happen to her, poor soul! and he sighed. 'Where is Curtis? I asked. 'He is with Nyleptha. She rode out to meet us today, and there was a grand to-do, I can tell you.
Indeed, what between one thing and another, it seemed certain that she would gather a fully armed host of nearly one hundred thousand men. And then came news that Sorais was proposing to break up her camp and march on the Frowning City itself, desolating the country as she came. Thereon arose the question whether it would be best to meet her at Milosis or to go out and give her battle.
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.
'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.
'So far as I am concerned, said Good, colouring up, 'I am quite willing to forget the past; and if the Lady of the Night thinks me worth the taking I will marry her tomorrow, or when she likes, and try to make her a good husband. All eyes were now turned to Sorais, who stood with that same slow smile upon her beautiful face which I had noticed the first time that I ever saw her.
Curtis winced at this, and turning towards Sorais, said to her in a low voice, 'Methinks that yesterday thou hadst other names than wolf to call me by, oh Queen! and I saw her bite her lips as, like a danger flag, the blood flamed red upon her face.
I also knew that if we could by any means defend this doorway the murderers could get in nowhere else; for the palace is absolutely impregnable, that is, since the secret door by which Sorais had entered on that memorable night of attempted murder had, by Nyleptha's order, been closed up with masonry. 'I have it, said Nyleptha, who, as usual with her, rose to the emergency in a wonderful way.
And all the while that we talked, or rather tried to talk, and laughed, Sorais would sit there in her carven ivory chair, and look at us and read us all like a book, only from time to time saying a few words, and smiling that quick ominous smile of hers which was more like a flash of summer lightning on a dark cloud than anything else.
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