To-morrow I wed the lady Rose of Roses, and you two--her brothers--shall give her to me, as is fitting," and he sneered.

"Then also you shall receive the reward of valour--a great reward, I promise you." While he spoke Godwin, staring upward, had noted a little wandering cloud floating across the moon.

Slowly it covered it, and the place grew dim.
"Now," he whispered, and bowing to the Al-je-bal, they pushed their horses through the open gate where the mob closed in on them, thus for a little while holding back the escort from following on their heels.

They spoke to Flame and Smoke, and the good horses plunged onward side by side, separating the crowd as the prows of boats separate the water.

In ten paces it grew thin, in thirty it was behind them, for all folk were gathered about the archway where they could see, and none beyond.