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`` A simple one enough , '' he answered . `` We got here all right , as we told you over the wire . Then Maqueda talked to you for a long while until you rang off , saying you wanted to speak to Japhet . After that , at ten o'clock precisely , we heard the thud of the explosion . Next , as we were preparing to go out to see what had happened , Joshua arrived alone , announced that the idol Harmac had been destroyed , and demanded that the Child of Kings , ` for State reasons , ' should accompany him to his own castle . She declined and , as he insisted , I took it upon myself to kick him out of the place . He retired , and we saw no more of him , but a few minutes later there came a shower of arrows down the passage , and after them a rush of men , who called , ` Death to the Gentiles .