She greeted us, and after the exchange of the usual compliments, said: "Friends, I have summoned you for this reason.

This morning when the traitor Shadrach was being led out to execution at the hands of these men, the officers of the law, he begged for a delay.

When asked why, as his petition for reprieve had been refused, he said that if his life was spared he could show how your companion, he whom they call Black Windows, may be rescued from the Fung." "How ?" asked Orme and I in one breath.
"I do not know," she answered, "but wisely they spared the man.

Let him be brought in." A door opened, and Shadrach entered, his hands bound behind his back and shackles on his feet.

He was a very fearful and much chastened Shadrach, for his eyes rolled and his teeth chattered with terror, as, having prostrated himself to the Walda Nagasta, he wriggled round and tried to kiss Orme's boot.