See and read, since whatever you may say of yourself, you are, I think, no traitor." "Not if I am well paid to keep counsel, Prince," Metem answered with a smile.

Then he read the scroll.
"I am glad that the noble lady brings an attendant with her," he said as he returned it, with a bow.

"The gossips of Zimboe are censorious, and might misinterpret this moonlight meeting, as indeed would Sakon and Issachar.

Well, doves will coo and maids will woo, and unless I can make money out of it the affair is none of mine." "Have I not told you that there is no question of wooing ?" asked the prince angrily.

"I go only to give her what counsel I can in the matter of the suit of this savage, Ithobal.