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"Neverup, for the old wizard's

talk had stirred sad and bitter memories in my heart "That time is

dead, Zikali"

"Is it, Macumazahn? Now, from the look upon your face I should have said

that it was still very s that happened in our youth

have a way of keeping alive But doubtless I aaan, and as Retief, and as the others, your coh you do not believe it, I saved your life on that

red day, for my own purposes, of course, not because one white life was

anything ao to rest, for although your heart has been awakened by , I pro the

long hair back off his eyes he looked athead

to and fro, and burst into another of his great laughs

So I went But, ah! as I went I wept

Anyone who knew all that story would understand why But this is not the

place to tell it, that tale of my first love and of the terrible events

which befell us in the tiaan Still, as I say, I have written

it down, and perhaps one day it will be read