Have done!" he added with a burst of impatience.

"What will you of my daughter ?" "What man has always willed of woman--herself, body and soul." "Her soul perchance is yours, if she has one, but her body is mine to give or withhold.

Yet it can be bought at a price," he added slowly.
"So she told me, Oro." "I can guess what she told you.

Did I not watch you yonder by the lake when you gave her a ring graved with the signs of Life and Everlastingness?
The question is, will you pay the price ?" "Not so; the question is--what is the price ?" "This; to enter my service and henceforth do my will--without debate or cavil." "For what reward, Oro ?" "Yva and the dominion of the earth while you shall live, neither more nor less." "And what is your will ?" "That you shall learn in due course.

On the second night from this I command the three of you to wait upon me at sundown in the buried halls of Nyo.