"What say you ?" "I say," she answered coldly, "that this man lies to save himself.

I say, moreover, that I answered to him, that sooner would I die than that he should lay a finger on me." "I hold also that he lies," said Hassan.

"Nay; unclasp that dagger if you would live to see another sun.

Here, I will not fight with you, but Salah-ed-din shall learn all this case when we reach his court, and judge between the word of the princess of Baalbec and of his hired servant, the false Frank and pirate, Sir Hugh Lozelle." "Let him learn it--when we reach his court," answered Lozelle, with meaning; then added, "Have you aught else to say to me, prince Hassan?
Because if not, I must be attending to the business of my ship, which you suppose that I was about to abandon to win a lady's smile." "Only this, that the ship is the Sultan's and not yours, for he bought it from you, and that henceforth this lady will be guarded day and night, and doubly guarded when we come to the shores of Cyprus, where it seems that you have friends.

Understand and remember." "I understand, and certainly I will remember," replied Lozelle, and so they parted.
"I think," said Rosamund, when he had gone, "that we shall be fortunate if we land safe in Syria." "That was in my mind, also, lady.