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She thought sadly of Joro, whose shrewd observations and counsel she missed more than she had ever thought possible. "Poor, dear Joro! You would be a better king than any man you could ever find! I wish I could have done as you wished me to." There was a stir near the main entrance of the hall. A large private yacht was slowly descending.
I would rather be the wife of a common interplanetary patrolman than queen of Mars! I withdraw, now!" Joro, struck by her vehemence, paled. The muscles of his jaw lumped. From a pocket he took a portable disk-radio, an inch in diameter, and spoke a few words. From outside there was a sudden uproar, shouts and curses.
The announcer's face appeared again, stern and sorrowful. "A great disaster has befallen these lovers and all the world loves a lover, you know. Some thugs, believed by the police to be terrestrial spies, have kidnapped the princess from the palace of her uncle, Prince Joro of Hanlon.
"To feed all the horses, one hundred in number, that are kept in the stables, and to wait upon all other persons in the house when they take their meals. "To dress the hair of the thirty-six joro belonging to this house, dressing the hair of each in the style that best becomes her; and also to fill seven boxes with threads of twisted hemp.
"For seven days and seven nights I was tossed about upon the sea in a canoe; then I was in a great danger in the bay of Nawoye, and was saved by a kind man called Murakami Deyu. "And after that I was sold and bought seventy-five times; and the last time I was brought here, where I have been made to suffer all kinds of hardship only because I refused to become a joro.
If you are ever to establish your royal house you must have other help." "And I suppose," Sira continued sweetly, "that you have also arranged a deal with the central banks and the secret war interests?" Joro coughed uncomfortably. "As a matter of fact you see, my dear princess, there are certain commercial interests transportation, mining, and so forth. They have defied the power of the bankers.
He would not have consented to this invasion of her home, she knew! And he had not. Joro had been too wise to try. A dose of marchlor in a glass of wine had done what fifty men could not have accomplished by main strength. Tolto was in a drugged sleep. Joro said: "He isn't hurt. We will simply send him back to his valley, and you, my dear princess, will do your duty to your subjects!"
"There is one requirement that Joro insists on," Sira said in a low voice. "What's that?" asked Sime, marveling that such transparently pink fingers should handle a sword so well. "He says that I must choose a mate, to insure the stability of the royal house." It seemed to Sime that this announcement gave him a pang out of all proportion. "That should be easy," he managed.
Short lengths of chain led to cargo ringbolts in the floor, holding fast Tolto's cuffed ankles. To anyone looking at Tolto, just then, these extreme precautions might have seemed absurd. Prince Joro, however, was a good judge of men.
How did you get past Tolto?" "Do not use that ugly word against me. I implore you!" Joro protested. "What we are doing is out of loyalty to the monarchy not treason. The monarchy is of greater importance than individuals. Consider your duty to the rule of your fathers! As for Tolto " He issued a curt command, and there was the sound of movement.
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