“No robber harms; put up those arms,”
He heard, nor left the spot.
“We came to take you captive,
Alive,” he heard, “or dead.
If you alarm the camp, the harm
Will fall on you,” they said.[14]
“Move on.”—“I dress,” he told them.[15]
But they, in tones polite,
Replied: “Not so. We came, you know,
Without our wives to-night.