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If it is true that each of us has an antipolaric brother soht twin if we are dark, a dark twin if we are bright, then that hut was surely such a changeling to one of our cells There s on all sides save the one through which we entered by the open door, and they had neither bars nor panes nor any other sort of closing Floor and walls andframes were of the branches of the yellow tree; branches not planed to boards but left in the round so that I could, in places, see sunlight through the walls, and if I had dropped a worn orichalk, it would very likely have co, only a triangular space beneath the roof where pans and food bags hung

A wo aloud in a corner, with a naked man crouched at her feet The man we had seen fro out I felt that he knee had come (and even if he had not seen us a few moments before, he must certainly have felt the hut shake e climbed the ladder), but that he wished to pretend he did not There is so in the line of the back when a man turns so as not to see, and it was evident in his The woman read: "Then he went up from the plain to Mt Nebo, the headland that faces the city, and the Co showed him the whole country, all the land as far as the Western Sea Then he said to hiive their sons You have seen it, but you shall not set your feet upon it' So there he died, and was buried in the ravine"

The naked man at her feet nodded "It is even so with our own iven But the thuift, and dig in the floor of his house, and cover all with a ift rises from the earth and ascends into the sky and is seen no more"

The wooma - "

But thearound "Be quiet, Marie I want to hear what he has to say You can explain later"

"A nephew of mine," the naked man continued, "a member of owdalie and went to a certain pool So quietly did he lean over the water he ht have been a tree" The naked man leaped up as he said this, and posed his sinewy frah to spear the wo he stooduntil the er feared him and returned to drop sticks in the water, and the hesperorn fluttered to her nest A big fish came out of his den in the sunken trunks My nepheatched him circle, slowly, slowly He swam near the surface, and then when my nepheas about to drive hoer a fish to be seen, but a lovely wo, who had changed his for beneath the woman's face, and knew that he saw a reflection He looked up at once, but there was nothing to be seen but the whisk of the vines The wo very well the aht my nepheent to the Nu oreodont, saying - "

Agia whispered todo you o on all day"

"Let o"

"Mighty is the Proud One, sacred all his na found beneath leaves is his, the storms are carried in his arms, the poison holds no death unless his curse is pronounced over it!"

The woman said, "I don't think we need all these praises of your fetish, Isangoma My husband wishes to hear your story Very well, but tell it and spare us your litanies"

"The Proud One protects his supplicant! Would not he be shaoma!"

From the , the man said, "He's afraid, Marie Can't you hear it in his voice?"

"There is no fear for those ear the sign of the Proud One! His breath is the ay!"

"Robert, if you won't do sooain"

"The Proud One knows Isangoma loves the Preceptress He would save her if he could"

"Save me from what? Do you think there's one of your dreadful beasts here? If there were, Robert would shoot it with his gun"

"The tokoloshe, Preceptress The tokoloshe come But the Proud One in his condescension will protect us He is the hty commander of all tokoloshe! When he roars, they hide beneath the fallen leaves"

"Robert, I think he's lost his mind"

"He has eyes, Marie, and you don't"

"What do youout that ?" Quite slowly, the ia and me, then he turned away His expression was the one I have seen our clients hen Master Gurloes showed them the instruments to be used in their anacrisis

"Robert, for goodness' sake tell oma says, the tokoloshe are here Not his, I think, but ours Death and the Lady Have you heard of them, Marie?"

The woman shook her head She had risen from her seat and opened the lid of a small chest

"You wouldn't have, I suppose It's a picture - an artistic theoma, I don't think your Proud One has much authority over these tokoloshe These come from Paris, where I used to be a student, to re up art for this"

The wo to give you so, and you'll feel better soon"

The ia's face and h he did not wish to do so but found himself unable to control the motion of his eyes "If I as the well have overlooked Isangoet Didn't you feel the floor tre to him? That hen they calass of water so you can s your quinine There are no ripples in it"

"What are they, Isangoma? Tokoloshe - but what are tokoloshe?"

"Bad spirits, Preceptor When , there is another tokoloshe He stay behind Man think: No one know, everyone dead But tokoloshe remain until end of world Then everyone will see, knohat that man did"

The woman said, "What a horrible idea"

Her husband's hands clenched the yellow stick of the sill "Don't you see they are only the results of e do? They are the spirits of the future, and we an nonsense, that's what I see, Robert Listen Your vision is so sharp, can't you listen for aWhat do you want to say?"

"Nothing I only want you to listen What do you hear?"

The hut fell silent I listened too, and could not have not listened if I had wanted to Outside the monkeys chattered, and the parrots screale noises, a faint hu far away

"What is it?" the man asked

"The mail plane If you're lucky, you should be able to see it soon" The man craned his neck out the , and I, curious to see what he was looking for, went to theon his left and looked out as well The foliage was so thick that at first it see ale of the thatch, and I found a patch of blue there

The huest flier I have ever seen It inged, as if it had been built by some race that had not yet realized that since it would not flap wings like a bird in any case, there was no reason its lift, like a kite's, could not coent pinion, and a third at the front of the hull; the light sees

"In three days we could be at the landing strip, Robert The next ti"