Rather would I see you dead, prince Aziel, then lured down to hell by the wiles of yonder witch." Then before Aziel could answer he turned and left him.
***** As Issachar went to his own chamber full of bitterness and indignation, he passed the door of Elissa's apartments, and came face to face with Metem issuing from them.
"Will the woman live ?" he asked of him.
"Be comforted, worthy Issachar.

I think so; that is, if the bandage does not slip.

I go to tell the prince." "Gladly would I give a hundred golden shekels to him who brought me tidings that it had slipped and the woman with it, down to the arms of her father Beelzebub," broke in the Levite passionately.
"Pretty words for a holy man," said Metem, feigning amazement.

"Well, Issachar, I will do most things for good money, but to shift that bandage would be but murder, and this I cannot work even for the gold and to win your favour." "Fool," answered Issachar, "did I ask you to do murder?
I do not fight with such weapons; let the woman live or die as it is decreed.

Nay, enter my chamber, for I would speak with you, who are a cunning man versed in the craft of courts.