The King's Talisman — page 68: what you’re looking at

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THE KINGS TALISMAN. 59 for you. I received the information through a private source ere I received my charge from the king, but until the present moment I could hardly realize its truth. Now I tell thee, as sure as there is the one true God who reigns in heaven, you shall not go to your destruction!” The lightning may leap through its track in the heavens, but it leaps not more quickly than did the thrill that bounded through the frame of Selina as these words fell upon her ear. She met the calm look of her companion, and she saw, as the starlight revealed its lineaments, that no idle, meaningless thoughts were imaged there. Beneath that calmness she could see a will which could only die in the grave of him who conceived it; and while she vet gazed upon his face, she murmured, half unconscious of what she sald: | | ‘Shall not go! Oh, who—who can help me?” ‘He whom the king has hired to carry thee thither,” re- plied Noureddin, as he turned his head to see that he was not overheard from behind. ‘‘ Modad little knew his am- bassador, when he engaged me. No, lady, you shall not go to Khaibar.” For some time Selina dwelt in silence upon the strange words of her companion. She was almost afraid to com- prehend their full meaning, lest the hope which they pointed out should be dashed down again; but still she could not fail to understand that the young man intended her release, and as soon as the idea became clearly defined in her mind, she said: _ Qh, sir, if you could save me from this dreadful fate, ~and not doom my father to his death, I know your own kind heart would reward you, but I would not sacrifice my parent to the king’s wrath, even to save myself.” | ‘Fear not for your father,” returned Noureddin; “for the king dares not put his threat into execution, Modad Gomicbooks.co