often roused his ire to know that this hero's name was held famous even
among the Moslems. His envious soul grudged even to the greatest that
pure honor which friend and foe alike are ready to pay; he did
not believe in it, and regarded the man to whom it was given as a
time-serving hypocrite.

And as he hated the father so he did the daughter, though he had never
seen her. Orion's fate was sealed in his mind; and before his death he
should suffer more acutely through the execution of Paula, whether
she denied or owned her guilt. He might perhaps succeed in making her
confess, so he desired that she should at once be brought into the
judge's council-room; but he failed completely in his attempt, though
he promised her, through the interpreter, the greatest leniency if she
admitted her guilt and threatened her with an agonizing death if she
refused to do so. His prisoner, indeed, was not at all what he had
expected, and the calm pride with which she denied every accusation
greatly impressed the upstart slave. At first he tried to supplement the
interpreter by shouting words of broken Greek, or intimidating her by
glaring looks whose efficacy he had often proved on his subordinates
but without the least success; and then he had her informed that he
possessed a document which placed her guilt beyond doubt. Even this did
not shake her; she only begged to see it. He replied that she would
know all about it soon enough, and he accompanied the interpreter's
repetition of the answer with threatening gestures.

He had met with shrewd and influential women among his own people;
he had seen brave ones go forth to battle, and share the perils of a
religious war, with even wilder and more blood-thirsty defiance of death
than the soldiers themselves; but these had all been wives and mothers,
and whenever he had seen them break out of the domestic circle, beyond
which no maiden could ever venture, it was because they were under
the dominion of some passionate impulse and a burning partisanship for
husband or son, family or tribe. The women of his nation lived for the
most part in modest retirement, and none but those who were carried away
by some violent emotion infringed the custom.

But this girl! There she stood, immovably calm, like a warrior at the
head of his tribe. There was something in her mien that quelled him, and
at the same time roused to the utmost his desire to make her feel his
power and to crush her pride. She was