The King's Talisman — page 163: what you’re looking at

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154 THE KINGS TALISMAN. the spot, nor would they move till they had seen Abdah Nazor and his companion safely off. ‘‘“Come, Noureddin,” the old man said, as he took the youth by the arm, ‘‘ let us on our way.” «‘ But where?” Noureddin asked, as he instinctively cast his eyes back upon the temple, where, but a short time before, he had left his heart with her to whom he had given it. ‘‘Where?” iterated the dervise. ‘‘ First we must seek our mountain home, for there begins the work we have to do.” ‘<< And leave Selina to the will of the tyrant?” ‘Leave that with me for the present. -I would rather she were in the cave with Ossifrage, but yet you have naught to fear. Her father is safe with the woman, nor can the king rout him. But come, my son, moments are hours with us.” ‘“‘But where will you seek egress? The ways are all guarded.” 7 “Not all, Noureddin. From the very walls of the royal palace there opens a way to the mountain which none now living save myself ever threaded. Ere another moon shall show its round face on the earth, you shall know of things which shall open the fountain of astonishment wide in your bosom. Come, our way hesthrough the dungeons of the palace.” Noureddin looked upon the man who had been his pre- ceptor from childhood, with a degree of amazement that had never before possessed him. He had heard the old man read from tomes of knowledge which were hidden to the great mass of humanity, and he had seen him compute the mysteries of the evolutions of the heavenly hosts, but now he was diving deep into mysteries of & more startling char- acter—mysteries which lay upon the verge of immediate affairs; and which comprehended the weal and woe of thousands, With such thoughts busy in his brain, he Eomicbooks (Ee)