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48 é THE KING'S TALISMAN. the summary removal of one who was obnoxious to them had given intense satisfaction. : CHAPTER VII. SELINA AND HER ATTENDANT. The sun sank behind the mountains and left behind it a perfectly cloudless sky. <A light, breezy vapor arose from the mountain base, where the rippling springs gushed forth from the rock, and the gentle zephyr wafted it away over the spreading desert, leaving, as it swept by, a cooler and more grateful temperature in the atmosphere. It did not grow dark, for as the luminous nebula that lingered over the sands began to lose its soft brilliancy, the lesser lights of heaven set themselves upon the night-watch, and like dis- tant tapers they twinkled and gleamed in the overarching vault. The fair Selina, with a single female attendant, reclined upon a small couch in her traveling pavilion, from whence she had looked out but once during the day, and that was during the battle with the Bedouins. She felt the change in the atmosphere, and she knew that the sun, with its burning heat, had gone. | ‘‘Miriam,” she said, in soft, melancholy accents, ‘do you find it cooler now, than it was?” ‘Much cooler,” replied the attendant. ‘Night has fallen around us.” ‘‘Then the stars must be shining. Oh, would that I might look upon them.” | | ‘And can you not?” asked Miriam, gazing up with sur- prise into her mistress’ face. ‘‘Surely they would not re- fuse you such a boon.” ‘“Ah, Miriam, they will refuse me everything. To-day, when I would have looked forth to take a last view of the EComicbooks (Efe) m