On their own heads be the doom of these devil-worshippers and cowards.

Have you any tidings of the lady Elissa ?" "Yes, Prince.

She still sits yonder in the tomb, resolute in her purpose, and giving no answer to those who come to reason with her." As he spoke the guard let fall the front of the tent so that the sunlight flowed into it, revealing Aziel and his twelve companions, each fast in his narrow and shameful prison.

"See," said Metem, "do you know the place ?" The prince struggled to his knees, and saw that they were set upon the top of a hill, built up of granite boulders, which rose eighty feet or more from the surface of the plain.

Opposite to them at a distance of under a hundred paces was a precipice in the face of which could be seen a cave closed with barred gates of bronze, while between the rocky hill and the precipice ran a road.
"I know it, Metem; there runs the path by which we travelled from the coast, and there is the tomb of Baaltis.