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"Yes, Mysire Advocaat No, Mysire Advocaat"

"No needlers? Us tell youman has, mysire"

Taal raised his eyebrohich are white too and very thick "One slug gun, mysire? Of it terrified all of you were?"

"No, Mysire Taal"

"Not, should I hope Nat's testimony you did not hear?"

"No, Mysire Taal It to hear, me they would not allow"

"Proper that is Testis oculatus unus plus valet quam auriti decem With him servants Nat had?"

"Yes, Mysire Taal Four"

"Weapons they had?"

"Yes, ed it is that Mysire Horn, old he is and unarmed he was, Mysire Nat to remain with him he forced"

By that ti a picture on one side of the courtroo, executed in browns and various shades of orange, of robed men seated around a table It was suspended by a tasseled cord fro collarfish, and it had begun to swing

Wijzer came forward to speak with me "Sent to the old whorl for Mysire Silk you were? This Hide says A good boy he is?"

"Yes So is Hoof"

Wijzer nodded and seated hier than , red face "From New Viron you are? Marrow there you know?"

It re I said, "Yes, Mysire Advocaat"

The red face became redder still as he squinted for a moment at the sun "Me you do not know?"

"Of course I-wait From New Viron, you mean What a fool I've been! You're the trader who told me about Pajarocu!"

Fro, freckled hand, Oreb inquired, "Good man?" Babbie (as asleep at n of cautious affirmation

Wijzer looked from one to the other "Me you remember, Mysire Horn?"

"Certainly, and I should have placed you ht be able to help ood dinner He has a good cook"

For a moment Wijzer studied me "Dead Marrow is"

"I'm sorry to hear it He didn't die by violence, I hope"

Wijzer shook his head

"He was a h it is twenty-two years now, I suppose" I called to Hoof, as in the waist talking to Hide and Vadsig, and asked how long I had been gone

"Since summer of year before last, Father"

"Nearly two years," I told Wijzer, "though when I look at er They were hardlyreed

"At Judge Kenner's, them I see Killed both will be I think, but they run and shoot, shoot and run, and after the lions they are"

I thanked him "You must have seen them at my trial as well I saw you in the audience, and they were sitting almost directly behind me"

Wijzer nodded "Them in we let Beroep and me His family we say, so for theive reat favor, Captain"

"Mine, Mysire Horn?" He looked back at the steersreen water "You too saw"

"Yes, but I would like to have someone else's ihed "Not, my wife thinks"

"Men and woirl Vadsig you hter" He eyed me slyly

"Perhaps I will, but I would like your impressions I have found it difficult to write about The details keep getting in my way"

I s all I have-not just what you see here, but ht in Dorp-"

"New clothes you buy, mysire, but old ones you wear On a boat wise that is"

"I've learned that I have a sort ofdown conversations If you would tell me nohat you remember best about my trial, I will certainly write that, and ood"

He nodded, his eyes again on the waves and the clouds, then shouted at the young man in the stern "What I best reerly, I hoped) When he said nothing, I ventured, "The Red Sun Whorl is what you reine The tower and the pits beneath it"

"This you call that rotting town?" Wijzer shook his head "Not, I reinary bottle to his mouth and pretended to drink

"Man talk!" Oreb insisted

"What I rey fellows"

"The Vanished People? I had wondered about that Surely ht that they were no more than tall men in masks"

"It may be, mysire, but four arms they had"

"They were not hbors, e on this side of the sea generally call the Vanished People"

"Not that men they may be I think This others may think, I ed, "me they serve These, you serve, Mysire Horn?"

"No They are ive?"

"Perhaps they could-I don't know Certainly I won't ask it Let us sail with our oind, Captain" Noas I, not he, as looking out to sea; and I could not repress the thought that Seawrack was there beneath the tossing waves

"Big wet," Oreb pronounced And, "Bad place!"

"It's a bad place for birds, certainly-or at least a bad place for such birds as are not sea birds; but you'll learn very quickly to patrol its beaches for dead fish"

Wijzer chuckled

"Is that the moment in my trial you recall most clearly? When the Vanished People came into the courtroom? Tell me about it, please What you saw and heard and felt?"