XXIV.

“Hast seen her? Hast thou seen my daughter? Say, “Know’st thou aught of my girl?”--“Great Heaven, what means “Thy question?”--“They have ta’en my girl away-- “One, one was not enough. Oh, Hell-born scenes “Of War!” An instant’s breathing-time he leans On Nial. “Isabel--.” “Who dared to harm?” Quoth Nial, flashing terrible wrath, then gleans From the old man, how, sleeping, the alarm Reached him that she was torn away by a stranger’s arm,