The King's Talisman — page 78: what you’re looking at

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LHE KING’ S TALISMAN. | 69 drawing their reins more tightly in their hands, they awaited their leader’s pleasure. | | Noureddin still held his sword in his hand, and laying its blade across his saddle-bow, he exclaimed: ““You have all seen from whence came that animal’s death. The poison was in my own water-pouch—placed there for me! What shall be the doom of those who have done it?” At first the Egyptians gazed one upon the other in silence, but soon Molech gave utterance to a single word. ‘The rest caught it up, and with one voice they shouted: “Death! Death!’ The Nubians heard that sound, and well they knew its fearful import. Two leaders had they already lost by one arm, and now they knew they had not only that arm against - them, but also all the Egyptians. A hurried consultation, a mere word and agreement, passed between them, then drawing their horses into springing crouch, and catching their spears in their hands, they gave a quick cry, and on the next instant they were darting off with an arrow's speed across the desert. They had fled from the death they dared not meet!” Not until the Nubians were hidden from sight by the cloud of sand and dust in the distance, did Noureddin move from his position; then he turned toward the pavilion, from the entrance of which the two girls were looking. << Now, my fair lady!” exclaimed Noureddin, as he came up, ‘‘you are free. ‘The tyrant’s power is, for the present, at least, crushed, and your course shall be once more toward your native city.” ‘¢ Oh, sir, and amJIfree? Shall I be carried again to my home?” uttered the fair Selina, as she gazed almost vacantly upon the man before her. ‘«If this right arm retains its strength, no earthly power (EON AKel exe ve) <S (E(0) m