"Do you need further testimony?
If so, it must be brief, for the sun sinks." "Nay," answered the spokesman, "for with you we took the three of them together in the chamber of the prince Aziel.

Set out the law of this matter, O Judge, and let justice be done according to the strict letter of the law--justice without fear or favour." "Hearken," said the Shadid.

"Last night this woman Elissa, the daughter of Sakon, being the lady Baaltis duly elected, met men secretly in the courts of the temple and accompanied them, or one of them, to the chamber of Aziel, a prince of Israel, the guest of Sakon.

Whether or no she was about to fly with him from the city which he should have left last night, we cannot tell, and it is needless to inquire, at least she was with him.

This, however, is sure, that they did not sin in ignorance of our law, since with my own mouth I warned them both that if the lady Baaltis consorts with any man not her husband duly named by her according to her right, she must die and her accomplice with her.
Therefore, Aziel the Israelite, we give you to death, dooming you presently to be hurled from the edge of yonder precipice." "I am in your power," said the prince proudly, "and you can murder if you will, because, forsooth, I have offended against some law of Baal, but I tell you, priest, that there are kings in Jerusalem and Egypt who will demand my blood at your hands.