“You think it is the camp of white men?”

“I do; for did I not see a ship asleep at anchor and the gleam of armor under a hill?”

A look of intense satisfaction crossed Vytal’s face. “They are come,” he said.


CHAPTER X

“As had you seen her ’twould have moved your heart,

Though countermined with walls of brass, to love,

Or at the least to pity.”

—Marlowe, in The Jew of Malta.