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Show lost, friend Zud!" "Lost?" growled Zud. "What gibberish is this? What is the Governor's memory to us?" "List ye!" cried Lusela. "Our compact! We were to take over the all-knowing Governor!" "Aye," growled Zud darkly, showing all his teeth. "That we will do and most rightly, eh?" "Fool!" cried Lusela. "Be thine ears painted on? He said e'en now that the Governor be now deaf and dumb!" "Who said such a thing?" growled Zud, starting up. He put his hand to his sword and met an empty scabbard for the Provincial leaders had been disarmed before coming to the parley table. "Will ye stand down, the two of ye!" cried Dr'Igor. Elsen reached up and pulled the glowering Zud to his seat. "Here, here," he said. "Enrage thyself not " Brandon, who with Nell had been hovering behind Phrapp and Dr'Anya, cleared his throat deferentially and endeavored to ask a quiet question of the good woman under cover of the argument. "And did the good troops of Grant-Sheblem repulse Her, midoctor?" Dr'Anya turned around to him. "Repulse whom?" "Why," he said, "the Seljuk's Lieutenant, Rollanda, thou knowest " "Rollanda?" Phrapp, listening to both the argument at the table and Brandon's question, turned around. "She comest not yet?" he asked worriedly of 323 |
