The guards pulled him to his feet again, and Maqueda said: "What have you to tell us, traitor, before you die ?" "The thing is secret, O Bud of the Rose.

Must I speak before so many ?" "Nay," she answered, and ordered most of those present to leave the room, including the executioners and soldiers.
"The man is desperate, and there will be none left to guard him," said Joshua nervously.
"I'll do that, your Highness," answered Quick in his bad Arabic, and stepping up behind Shadrach he added in English, "Now then, Pussy, you behave, or it will be the worse for you." When all had gone again Shadrach was commanded to speak and say how he could save the Englishman whom he had betrayed into the hands of the Fung.
"Thus, Child of Kings," he answered, "Black Windows, as we know, is imprisoned in the body of the great idol." "How do you know it, man ?" "O Lady, I do know it, and also the Sultan said so, did he not?
Well, I can show a secret road to that idol whence he may be reached and rescued.

In my boyhood I, who am called Cat, because I can climb so well, found that road, and when the Fung took me afterward and threw me to the lions, where I got these scars upon my face, by it I escaped.
Spare me, and I will show it to you." "It is not enough to show the road," said Maqueda.

"Dog, you must save the foreign lord whom you betrayed.

If you do not save him you die.