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"Noent on the dwarf, "perhaps I shall seem to die; and if so do not

touch ain and tell

you what your spirits have told me Or if I do not wake up--for a ti as I have

lived--after the fires are quite out, not before, lay your hands upon

one to soa as fast as the spirits of this place will let you, O ye ould

peep into the future"

As he spoke he threw a big handful of the roots that I have mentioned

on to each of the fires, whereon tall fla flames which were followed by columns of dense, white

s odour quite unlike

anything that I had ever sh e as an

apple and felt as though so it upwards with a stick

Next he threw the white pebble into the right-hand fire, that which was

opposite to : "Enter, Macumazahn, and look," and the black pebble he threw into the

left-hand fire saying: "Enter, Son of Matiwane, and look Then come back

both of you and make report to me, your master"

Now it is a fact that as he said these words I experienced a sensation

as though a stone had come out of my throat; so readily do our nerves

deceive us that I even thought it grated against e At any rate the choking was gone, only now I