hy,
appeared highly amused by it, so much so as even to give way to
laughter. Her unnatural behaviour once more roused the indignation of
her husband.

The wrong of being robbed, the humiliation of being bound, the knowledge
that he himself, along with his children, would be sold into slavery,
the torture of hunger and thirst, were sources of misery no longer
heeded by him; all were forgotten in the contemplation of a far greater
anguish.

Fatima, the favourite, the woman to whom his word should have been law,
the woman who had always pretended to think him something more than
mortal, now not only shunning but despising him in the midst of his
misfortunes.

This knowledge did more towards subduing the giant than all his other
sufferings combined.

"Old Golah looks very down in the mouth," remarked Terence to his
companions. "If it was not for the beating he gave me yesterday, I
could almost pity him. I made an oath, at the time he was thwacking me
with the ramrod, that if my hands were ever again at liberty, I'd see if
it was possible to kill him; but now that they are free, and his are
bound, I've not the heart to touch him, bad as he is."

"That is right, Terry," said Bill; "it's only wimin an' bits o' boys as
throws wather on a drowned rat, not as I mane to say the owld rascal is
past mischief yet. I believe he'll do some more afore the divil takes
'im intirely; but I mane that Him as sits up aloft is able to do His own
work without your helping Him."

"You speak truth, Bill," said Harry; "I don't think there is any
necessity for seeking revenge of Golah for his cruel treatment of us; he
is now as ill off as the rest of us."

"What is that you say?" inquired Colin. "Golah like one of us? Nothing
of the kind. He has more pluck, endurance, obstinacy, and true manly
spirit about him than there is in the four of us combined!"

"Was his attempt to starve you dictated by a manly spirit?" asked Harry.

"Perhaps not; but it was the fault of the circumstances under which he
has been educated. I don't think of that now; my admiration of the man
is too strong. Look at his refusing that drink of water when it had
been several times offered him!"

"There is something wonderful about him certainly," assented Harry; "but
I don't see anything in him to admire."

"No more do I," said Bill. "He might be as comfortable now as we are;
and I say a man's a fool as won't be 'appy when he can."

"What you call his