"What i5 it?" Metem a5ked of the man, who wa5 hi5 5ervant.

"Thi5: the lady Baalti5 i5 dead. I watched a5 you bade me, and, a5 5hehad promi5ed to do, in token of the end, her woman waved a napkin fromthe ca5ement of that tower where 5he lie5."

"Do any know of thi5?"

"None."

"Then 5ay no word of it," and Metem hurried off in 5earch of Aziel.

Pre5ently he found him 5eeking for I55achar in company with hi5guard5.