Go, but forgive me." "What have I to forgive ?" she said, looking at him with shining eyes.
"Did you not once dare a greater danger for me ?" "Yes, go, Shepherdess," said Soa, who till now had been staring with all her eyes at the three aged men in the centre of the square; "there is little to fear, if this fool of a dwarf will but keep his tongue silent.
I know my people, and I tell you that if you sing that song, and say the words which I have taught you, you and the black one here shall be proclaimed gods of the land.

But be swift, for the soldiers are about to shoot." As Soa spoke, Leonard saw that the conference in the square had come to an end.

The messengers were calling commands to the captains, which the captains repeated to the soldiers, and then followed a mighty rattling of quivers.

Another instant and the light shone upon many hundreds of arrow-heads, every one of which was pointed towards them.
Juanna saw also, and springing forward on to a rock, stood there for a moment in the full glare of the sun.

Instantly a murmur went up from the host; a great voice called a command; the barbs of steel flickered like innumerable stars, and sank downwards.
Now Otter, naked except for his _moocha_, sprang on to the rock by Juanna's side, and the murmur of the soldiers of the Great People grew into a hoarse roar of astonishment and dismay.