Here food had been prepared for them by Soa, who looked at them curiously, especially at Leonard and Francisco, as though, indeed, she had never expected to see them again.
"Hearken, Olfan," said Juanna, "we have saved your life to-night and you have sworn fealty to us; is it not so ?" "It is so, Queen," the warrior answered.

"And I will be faithful to my oath.

This heart, that but for you had now been cold, beats for you alone.

The life you gave back to me is yours, and for you I live and die." As he spoke he glanced at her with an expression in which, as it seemed to Juanna, human feeling was mixed with supernatural awe.

Was it possible, she wondered with a thrill of fear, that this savage king was mingling his worship of the goddess with admiration of the woman?
And did he begin to suspect that she was no goddess after all?
Time would show, but at least the look in his eyes alarmed her.
"Fear not," he went on; "a thousand men shall guard you night and day.
The power of Nam is broken for a while, and now all this company may sleep in peace." "It is well, Olfan.