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Her movements, in a sense, were directed to the chieftain, constituting in one
sense a brazen, shameless exhibition of slave charms, but perhaps in another,
a secret plea for his attention. The former officer of the court, now a
stripped slave, performed on the pelts before her master, writhing, twisting,
turning, displaying his property to him in its manifold, luscious aspects. In
one instant their eyes had met, but only for a moment, and doubtless not noted
by others. "I am yours," had said her eyes. "I beg to be wanted."
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"Excellent!" said Hendrix.
"Superb!" said Gundlicht.
Then the brunette lay upon the pelts, on her stomach, her head down, it turned
to the side.
She was breathing heavily.
Janina then performed before the men.
"Marvelous!" breathed Hendrix.
"Aiii!" cried Gundlicht, in disbelief, in mad pleasure.
Then Janina, too, lay before the men, she on her back, breathing heavily, her
left knee raised, the soft palms of her hands upward.
"Are not such women worth ten of the normal sort?" asked Astubux.
"Do not think we will take less than fifty!" said Hendrix.
"But those three will be among the fifty!" said Gundlicht.
"Certainly," said Hendrix to Gundlicht.
"And," inquired the chieftain, "does not even the normal free woman undergo a
remarkable transformation when she becomes a slave?"
"Yes," said Hendrix. "They do."
Astubux clenched his fists.
"They are women," Otto reminded Astubux.
"We will take these three, and others, fifty others, of your most beautiful
women," said Hendrix.
"That would be fifty-three," said Astubux.
"True," said Hendrix.
"These three," said Gundlicht, indicating the slaves on the pelts, "have
already been branded, doubtless with our irons."
"One, she most before you, was already branded," said Otto. "We used your
irons for the other two."
"Our thanks," said Hendrix. "You have saved us the trouble of marking them."
"Would you like the blonde, for yourself?" asked Otto of Hendrix, who was the
first among the two envoys.
"Yes!" said Hendrix.
"Astubux," said Otto, "I give her to you."
"Thank you, my chieftain!" said Astubux.
Hendrix regarded the chieftain, startled.
"Hurry to your master," said Otto to Ellen.
Quickly she sprang up and ran to kneel beside Astubux. She looked up at him,
frightened. She did not know what sort of master he would be. She did know she
belonged to him, totally. She put down her head and kissed his feet.
"Is this some joke?" asked Hendrix.
"The other two, she most before you, and the other, the small brunette, said
Otto, "are both mine. They will continue to wear my disk."
Janina looked gratefully at the chieftain. So, too, did the brunette, so small
and helpless, stripped before the men, on the pelts.
"I do not understand," said Gundlicht.
"I have shown you hospitality," said Otto. "It is now time for you to return
to your camp."
"But the women, the tribute," said Hendrix.
"There is no more tribute," said Otto. "We have brought these things here, the
furs and such, and outside, the produce, and such, merely to give you some
understanding of the wealth of the
Wolfungs, to indicate to you that we might pay an excellent tribute if we were
so minded, but we are no longer so minded."
"No tribute?" said Hendrix, incredulously.
"No tribute," said Otto.
"It seems," said Hendrix to Gundlicht, "that the Wolfungs have had a chieftain
long enough."
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"Before you pull the trigger," said Otto, regarding the pistol in Gundlicht's
hand, "I suggest you look to your right and left.
Glancing about Hendrix and Gundlicht saw, to their left, a fellow with a
Telnarian rifle. The
Wolfungs on the other side of the hut moved well away, out of the range of
fire, for a blast from the rifle would take the wall itself from the hut, in a
blaze of fire. On the other side Hendrix and
Gundlicht saw two men, each armed with a fire pistol.
"We can destroy your village," said Hendrix. "Your villages."
"But of course you would both be dead then," said Otto.
"Where did you get such things?" asked Hendrix.
"From our source of supply," said Otto.
"They are not with charges," said Hendrix. "They are empties, discarded
weapons. They have no ammunition."
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