then he feared that rose of evening might regard him with disgust because he was no longer a human being . so he ordered his mother on no account to speak of it , and this his mother promised . then she spread the report in the village that the body which had been found in the river had not been that of her son at all . yet she could not rid herself of the fear that , since aduan was a departed spirit , heaven might refuse to send him a child .
aduan .
who was a departed spirit ?
who was a departed spirit ?