Only our friend Barung sticks to his word and proposes to sacrifice poor old Higgs on this day fortnight.

Now, of course, that must be prevented somehow, and prevented it shall be if it costs me my life.

Don't you suppose that I have been thinking about myself all the time, for it isn't so, only the trouble is that I can't find any plan of rescue which will hold water." "Then what's to be done, Orme?
I haven't spoken much of the matter before for fear of upsetting you when you were still weak, but now that you are all right again we must come to some decision." "I know, I know," he answered earnestly; "and I tell you this, that rather than let Higgs die alone there, I will give myself up to Barung, and, if I can't save him, suffer with him, or for him if I can.

Listen: there is to be a great council held by the Child of Kings on the day after to-morrow which we must attend, for it has only been postponed until I was well enough.

At this council that rogue Shadrach is to be put upon his trial, and will, I believe, be condemned to death.