? ? ? ? "Let the consequences and the punishment fall on me alone, for I alone am guilty. Those others of the palace guard who assisted in the flight did so under my instructions."
? ? ? ? Kulan Tith looked first at me and then at Thuvan Dihn, as though to ask our judgment upon the man, but the error was so evidently excusable that neither of us had any mind to see the young officer suffer for a mistake that any might readily have made.
? ? ? ? "How left they," asked Thuvan Dihn, "and what direction did they take?"
? ? ? ? "They left as they came," replied the officer, "upon their own flier. For some time after they had departed I watched the vessel's lights, which vanished finally due north."
? ? ? ? "Where north could Matai Shang find an asylum?" asked Thuvan Dihn of Kulan Tith.
? ? ? ? For some moments the Jeddak of Kaol stood with bowed head, apparently deep in thought. Then a sudden light brightened his countenance.
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