The King's Talisman — page 137: what you’re looking at

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128 3 THE KING’S TALISMAN. “ Just at nightfall. from the top of the mountain, I es- pied thy troop. At first I doubted that it could be thee, but even my old eyes distinguished the pavilion, and I knew that you had returned. But who were those horsemen that then bore thee company?” | <<Do you remember Marmiel?” ‘«*He whom we entertained at our cave?” «<The same man.” «‘VYes, my son, I remember him well, for even then he swore to serve thee.” «?T was he and his party whom you saw,” returned Noureddin; and thereupon he related to the old dervise all that had transpired since he left, being careful to take as little credit upon his own shoulders as possible.. For some time after the youth had closed his narrative, the old man gazed in silence upon him. Even through the darkness Noureddin could see the look of peculiar pride that dwelt upon his features. ‘‘ And did you awe the Nubians with fears of your single arm ?”’ ‘<I know not that they feared my arm,” the young man replied; ‘‘ but openly they did not resist me.” ‘©No, they dared not do it, my son. “T'was in thine eye and in thy manner that dwelt the power that awed them. And this you did for the safety of one whom you would protect?” — ‘For the safety of one whom God has placed in my charge—for the safety of virtue and innocence—my life shall ever be the guard.” Abdah Nazor took the hand of his pupil, and in a tone of the deepest meaning, he said: ~**Noureddin, you have come forth bright from the fur- nace, though in truth I knew not that the coals would be heaped so plentifully upon thee; but all this is well, how- ever, and I shall now read thy destiny without doubting.” Eomicbooks (Efe)