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42 | THE KINGS TALISMAN. — = CHAPTER VI. THE ATTACK AND THE BATTLE. When Noureddin left the presence of the king, the two eunuchs led him, by a short and unfrequented route, out of the city. At the outer extremity of the pass a servant was in waiting with three horses, one of which was most richly caparisoned, and which was presented to the youth, while the eunuchs mounted the others and rode on, to the south- ward and eastward, a distance of two miles, where our hero found most of his retinue drawn up. He was not long in espying Molech among the black eunuchs, and a feeling of comparative relief possessed him as he felt that he had one companion, at least, upon whom he could depend; but at a sign fromthe Egyptian the youth approached him not, nor did he. betray any token of having particularly recognized him. Most of the attendants were mounted upon horses, only those who had charge of the camels being without them, and they now only awaited the arrival of the ten Nubians with the maiden. At length the equipment of the fair Selina hove in sight, and instinctively the eunuchs prepared for the start. Such as were upon the ground leaped into their saddles, and those who had charge of the camels mounted to their seats. ‘T’he maiden’s conveyance was a close pavilion, formed of the valley cedar, and so com- pletely covered with crimson tapestry that no eve could pen- etrate beneath it. This pavilion was supported between four trained camels, by means of stout leathern bands which passed over the animals’ backs, and from thence underneath the pavilion, It was sufficiently capacious for Gomichoo cS (Elo)