With a sudden movement, she cast off her purple robe.
There was a flash of steel! She had stabbed herself to the heart.
With a shriek, Germanus and Aspa (who had stood behind) sprang forward.
Cethegus silently caught the falling figure.
She died as soon as he drew the sword from her breast. He knew the sword. He himself had sent it to her.
It was the sword of King Witichis.
BOOK V.
TOTILA.
"Well for us that this sunny youth still lives!"--Margrave Ruediger of Bechelaren, Act i., Scene i.