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Updated: May 4, 2025
There, standing upon the rock some fifty feet above them, was Elissa, and with her, but at a distance, Ithobal the king. "Halt, prince Aziel," she called in a clear voice, "and hearken to my farewell. I have bought your life, and the lives of your companions, and you are free, for the road is clear and nothing can overtake the twelve swiftest camels in Zimboe.
Should you seek to do so by other means, I tell you that neither your high rank nor the power of my rule and friendship, nor pity for your youth and hers, can save you both from death, since to forgive you then would be to bring down the wrath of its outraged gods upon Zimboe. Oh!
"The gossips of Zimboe are censorious, and might misinterpret this moonlight meeting, as indeed would Sakon and Issachar. Well, doves will coo and maids will woo, and unless I can make money out of it the affair is none of mine." "Have I not told you that there is no question of wooing?" asked the prince angrily.
"For a hundred years," she added, "this storm has gathered, and now it must burst. When it has rolled away it will be known who is master of the land the ancient city of Zimboe, or Ithobal king of the Tribes." So they went back as they had come, and next day at the dawn, with a bold face but heavy hearts, received the messengers of king Ithobal, and told them their tale.
Never had Aziel seen such a spectacle, nor could he look upon it without dreading the issue of the war, for if they were savages, these foes were brave as the lions of their own plains, and had sworn by the head of their king to drag down the sheltering walls of Zimboe with their naked hands, or die to the last man. Turning his head with a sigh of doubt, Aziel found Metem standing at his side.
At this moment a messenger, whose long white hair, wild eyes and red robe announced him to be a priest of El, by which name the people of Zimboe worshipped Baal, entered the room, and whispered something into the ear of Sakon which seemed to disturb him much. "Pardon me, Prince, and you, my guests, if I leave you," said the governor, "but I have evil tidings that call me to the temple.
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