The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE SCORPION RINALDO. The cloud blackens all the sky. Laylahl [He takes the 5607191011/70171 his helmet. Keep this token of me. LAYLAH. For a token of hate and of revenge! RINALDO. As you will. But the Crusades are endedl [He draws her to the well, and lays her down. With her arms on the 1070 wall, and her face hidden, she 5005. RINALDO talees his gia/frey, and, with one glance over his shonlder towards the enemy and another to LAYLAH, rides of, driving the 5151175 into his horse. LAYLAH remains sobbing. After 0 long interval she half-rises, and stretching her arms after him, 60115 broken/y." LAYLAH. Come back! . . . Come back! . . . [5065 again take her more violent/y than ever. She struggles to herfeet, holds out the seorþz'on crest and calls :] Come back! . . . Come backl [She 6011015565 Dead silence. After a little the distant gallofiing of horses is heard. It grows loader and loader. LAYLAH rises, mistress of herself, kisses the golden seorpion and hides it at her heart, and refills thefliteher. [Enter a 00114 of Saracens, who dismount. Their leader, the EMIR SAID OMAR, rashesforward to the wells SAID OMAR. Victory! we have chased the infidels three days, and the vultures of the desert are gorged, and the jackals burst with fatness. My gazelle, didst thou languish for me? My rose, my tulip, my anemone, slim palm of the oasis, sweet water of the well! We shall feast to-night, F 81