spit on when he was yes well no look as though he wish to go away with you his face all change and she pointed to s countenance i am speaking to my husband not to you woman said shook her beautiful head and smiled woman wrong word i great lady here lady whom he love but no marry � till you die alas still seemed unable to speak and positively choked with wrath so perhaps to prevent any awkward pause continued the conversation who those she asked pointing with her finger at and dick who with the were making their way towards the platform your come to look after you and him oh i know that gentleman you love him for who you turn into the street oh i know i know old woman down there with white head and she pointed to who was watching all this scene with the interest she have magic she show me his ugly face in water he swim about in water with the tail � an of a snake head � man heart � snake you understand yes show you some magic too if you like now at last shook himself free from his he said why have you come here really i begin to wonder she answered while she gathered herself together for i don t seem very welcome do i also this place isn t pleasant its inhabitants are too fond of personal remarks then she paused and presently flung her words at him few and swift and straight i come to ask you to answer the riddle which that blind old has been amusing himself by putting to you at such length will you return to your duty and your deserted wife or will you stop here as the � the friend of that person and head priest of her please said be a little in your language these people are peculiar and my power here is limited if you apply such names to and they come to understand them i cannot answer for the consequences i did not ask you to answer for the consequences i asked you to answer my question replied biting her white lips it seems to require some thought said sadly then he lifted his hand and addressed the audience who were watching what passed with wondering eyes brothers and sisters he said a wonderful thing has happened in speaking to you to day about the crimes that have been done in i told you my own story for an example then the teacher yonder showed me how weak and evil i really was and put a question to me as to whether should she appear and ask it i would take back the wife of that story she that had wrought me evil in the past now this wife stands before me and demands the decision which i said i would give when the time came it has come � that evil day has dawned upon me who never thought to see it forgetting that things have io of tbe spirit changed in the matter of my fortunes across the sea yet my brethren shall i be wrong if i ask for a while to think if for instance i say that when we meet again as is our custom on this same day of the next month i then decide and not before no no you will be right they murmured the blind old mystic leading them with his shrill voice we will have it so more great men among them stood up here and there and shouted that he should not go that they would gather their servants and guard the pass and if need be keep him prisoner or � and they looked at dick and his companions translated their remarks adding on his own account this people in damned nasty temper � very private people and very fierce who love you must not make them angry or perhaps they kill us all i came here to interpret not to have throat cut dick also seizing the situation with remarkable swiftness was equally urgent and out spoken don t show off any of your airs and graces here please he said i am not anxious to follow the example of our friend the god upon the platform and the world in a wider fashion that little of a woman would jump at a chance of us and she can do it if she likes only weary with standing sank down on to a block of stone and incidentally into the lap of a native who already occupied it and scarcely his wild struggles to be free herself with a broad hat and remarked do not trouble if they kill us they kill us it is very interesting to hear them say their minds so well i am most glad that we came you hear their answer said and you must understand my position have you any objection to make i understand your position perfectly and i am � and quite aware that a man may find it difficult � most difficult to escape from certain kinds of and she glanced at and paused wrong word again murmured that lady with a sweet smile no what you call it no only one great rope of love too thick to cut too strong to break � much as for objections went on without this melodious and poetic interruption i could make scores but since we don t wish to be by your amiable perhaps i had better hold my tongue and give you a month in which to come to your right mind only i am by no means sure that i shall stop here all that time don t stop if you no like broke in again please not � the road it always open give you give you soldiers give you food and write you letter afterwards to tell you 