And now, through you--yes, through you--she has been snatched from the power of the great Assassin, and is safe in my court, and therefore henceforth I am your friend." "Sire, have you seen her ?" asked Godwin.
"Knights, I have seen her, and the face is the face of my dreams, and therefore I know full surely that in those dreams God spoke.
Listen, Sir Godwin and Sir Wulf," Saladin went on in a changed voice, a stern, commanding voice.

"Ask of me what you will, and, Franks though you are, it shall be given you for your service's sake--wealth, lands, titles, all that men desire and I can grant--but ask not of me my niece, Rose of the World, princess of Baalbec, whom Allah has brought to me for His own purposes.

Know, moreover, that if you strive to steal her away you shall certainly die; and that if she escapes from me and I recapture her, then she shall die.

These things I have told her already, and I swear them in the name of Allah.

Here she is, and in my house she must abide until the vision be fulfilled." Now in their dismay the brethren looked at each other, for they seemed further from their desire than they had been even in the castle of Sinan.