The General began to stride back and forth across the dusty carpet. "I wrote to the King in his Palace at Nineveh," he said. Reluctantly the girl followed him, swinging her fan. "I informed the King that elements of my Mountain-Leaping Pioneers had confronted the traitor Nairi. They forced the wretch to tremble before the awesome power of His Majesty and slew him with the edge of the sword!"