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Along the black avenue, back to the prison house of Mordo, the captives were marched. For Oleric, through the friendship Brunar bore him, won from that captain the half of a day for his friends, that they might pass it together before the separation decreed by Bel-Ar.
Understanding little of what had taken place, and no word of what had been said in the audience-chamber of the king -- for Oleric the Red was their only interpreter -- the prisoners still had the heart to look with curiosity upon the doings in that part of Adlaz town which lay along the way that they traversed.