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Elissa

CHAPTER VII
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The gold tempted me, for I had need of it, and I consented; but of who wrote the letter I know nothing, nor have I ever seen the woman before." "You have done wrong, girl," said Elissa, "but I believe your tale.

Now go." When she had gone, Elissa stood for a while thinking; and, as she thought, Metem saw a look of fear gather on her face.
"Say," she asked him, "is there anything strange about the tree of which the scroll tells ?" "Its size is strange," he answered, "and it has five roots that stand above the ground." As he spoke Elissa uttered a little cry.
"Ah!" she said, "it is the tree of my dream.

Now--now I understand.
Swift, oh! come with me swiftly, for see, the moon rises," and she sprang to the door followed by the amazed Metem.
Another minute, and they were speeding down the narrow street so fast that those who loitered there turned their heads and laughed, for they thought that a jealous husband pursued his wife.

As Elissa fumbled at the hasp of the door of the garden, Metem overtook her.
"What means this hunt ?" he gasped.
"That they have decoyed the prince here to murder him," she answered, and sped through the gateway.
"Therefore we must be murdered also.

A woman's logic," the Phoenician reflected to himself as he panted after her.
Swiftly as Elissa had run down the street, here she redoubled her speed, flitting through the glades like some white spirit, and so rapidly that her companion found it difficult to keep her in view.


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