You judged wisely, oh, my brothers, and out of a grateful heart I thank you one and all for it.
Well has he justified your trust by his later acts.

When, in obedience to the summons of the Vladika, he put the nation in a blaze and ranged our boundaries with a ring of steel, he did so unknowing that what was dearest to him in the world was at stake.

He saved my daughter's honour and happiness, and won her safety by an act of valour that outvies any told in history.

He took my daughter with him to bring me out from the Silent Tower on the wings of the air, when earth had for me no possibility of freedom--I, that had even then in my possession the documents involving other nations which the Soldan would fain have purchased with the half of his empire.
"Henceforth to me, Lords of the Council, this brave man must ever be as a son of my heart, and I trust that in his name grandsons of my own may keep in bright honour the name which in glorious days of old my fathers made illustrious.

Did I know how adequately to thank you for your interest in my child, I would yield up to you my very soul in thanks." The speech of the Voivode was received with the honour of the Blue Mountains--the drawing and raising of handjars.
FROM RUPERT'S JOURNAL.
_July_ 14, 1907.
For nearly a week we waited for some message from Constantinople, fully expecting either a declaration of war, or else some inquiry so couched as to make war an inevitable result.