I shall tell Imilce in the morning of the danger which has passed, for it is sure to come to her ears, and she will know better than I do how to thank you." Accordingly in the morning Hannibal's orders were carried out; the twelve natives taken prisoners were beheaded without any of the usual tortures which would have been inflicted upon a similar occasion.
No less than fourteen others had been killed in the fight.

The two Carthaginian nobles were sent for by Hannibal.

They came prepared to die, for they knew already by rumour that the attempt had failed, and doubted not when the summons reached them that Carpadon had denounced them as his accomplices.

But they went to their certain doom with the courage of their class--pale, perhaps, but otherwise unmoved.

Hannibal was alone with Hamilcar when they entered.
"That assassination is not an altogether unknown crime in Carthage," he said quietly, "I was well aware, but I did not before think that nobles in the Carthaginian horse would stoop to it.