Do you understand ?" "That is a hard saying, Lady," answered the man.

"Am I God that I should promise to save this stranger who perchance is already dead?
Yet I will do my best, knowing that if I fail you will kill me, and that if I succeed I shall be spared.

At any rate, I will show you the road to where he is or was imprisoned, although I warn you that it is a rough one." "Where you can travel we can follow," said Maqueda.

"Tell us now what we must do." So he told her, and when he had done the Prince Joshua intervened, saying that it was not fitting that the Child of Kings in her own sacred person should undertake such a dangerous journey.

She listened to his remonstrances and thanked him for his care of her.
"Still I am going," she said, "not for the sake of the stranger who is called Black Windows, but because, if there is a secret way out of Mur I think it well that I should know that way.