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Dawn, the cheerless gray of clouded winter, crept over the city of Adlaz. In her bed in the prison-palace of Bel-Tisan the dark-haired Princess Memene of Sardanes lay, and beside her was her new little son. But Memene was not well, and Rose knew she would not live.
"Oh, that Minos were here to see! " Memene said faintly. And again -- "It is the king he was so sure of. " She smiled at Rose. "It is the king, my sister. And he shall be named Patrymion, after a man who is dead -- a very brave man. " And smiling, she passed away.