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Our Sloru : a crimson sun is setting
TOCLOSE THE DAY UPON WHICH PRINCE
VALIANT HAS SACRIFICED HIS HONOR.
HE LOOKS BACK ON THE NOISY CAMP
AND WONDERS IF THE SEED HE HAS
PLANTED WILL-BEAR OMINOUS FRUIT.
down by the shore the north
men are repeating val's words
'why bisk disaster under a mad
king when the richest plunder
is right here in this camp.'awce
ready the ships!'
AND THE IRISH SCOTTI WHISPER :
'THE NORTHMEN ARE GOING TO. j
COLLECT THEIR WAGES IN ADVANCE
.VYHyNOTUS? PREPARE TO SAIL.'"
PRINCE VALIANT, ALIAS SIR OUlNTuS, RETURNS TO HlS
DOORLESS ROOM, AND THE SPIES TAKE THEIR POSITIONS
OUTSIDE, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ALFRED TO SHAVE HIS
HEAD. BUT ALFRED IS READY:- yOUR COLD IS GETTING
WORSE, MASTER. YOU MUST KEEP yOUR HEAD COVERED''
VAL LAYS ASIDE ARMS AND ARMOR AND APPEARS BEFORE.
KING DCH. 'SIRE, VOUR TAX HAS DONE TWO THINGS. IT
HAS PILLED VOUR EMPTV COPPERS AND IT HAS MADE '
VOUR ARMY HUNGRV POR MORE LOOT. THEy GROW
RESTLESS AND AVJSTAiARCH AT ONCE." '
T GIVE THE ORDERS, SIR OUINTUS,
THE SMILING TYRANT REMINDS
HIM. 'AND THERE IS A TORTURE
CHAMBER POR THOSE WHO
PRESUME TOO FAR.'
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BUT WITHIN THE STRONGHOLD SENTRIES ARE REDOUBLED,
AND VAL PACES THE WALL'S. ALL IS QUIET THROUGH THE'
LONG NIGHT. THEN, AT THE CHILL HOUR BEFORE DAWN,
ANGRY SHOUTS ARE HEARD. LIGHTS APPEAR, THEN- '
UPROAR! AN T"E wrtoLE CAMP BREAKS INTO AN ' -
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