An army is collecting on the Prah.

I hear that twelve thousand men are ordered to assemble there." "I have noticed," Frank said, "that there have been fewer men about than usual during the last few days.

What will happen to us, do you think ?" The missionary shook his head.
"No one can say," he said.

"It all depends upon the king's humor.

I think, however, that he is more likely to keep us as hostages, and to obtain money for us at the end of the war, than to kill us.