"Yes, excellency," answered the Irishman.
"Then they have been there," returned the deputy-pasha; "you know what that means?"
"They have erred through ignorance, your excellency."
"Then," replied the Turk, with vindictive significance, "within an hour they will grow wiser. Away with them!"
And the prisoners were all marched away.
"Begorra," muttered the Irishman to himself, "it's all up."
But he never relaxed his efforts for all this.
"Pardon, O excellency," he said, "but these young gentlemen who have offended through ignorance, being princes of the royal blood of Britain, their continued absence will lead to inquiries, and——"
"They shall die like dogs if they are kings," growled the deputy-pasha.
"Let me entreat humbly that you wait the return of his excellency, for these Franks are but savages, and the least slight, even to their princes, would bring their ships of war along our coast; the town would be razed to the ground."