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"Fool!" cried Tabus indignantly, but the girl exclaimed, in a tone of sincere shame: "You do well to call me that Perhaps I deserve still harsher names, for, in spite of the sternness hich I forbade hile word, I soon listened to hiht me, if I really loved him, not to refuse ould ure, his renown and greatness would be secured And how clearly heit, and at last promised that, in spite of rant all, all, and accoain to the work rooht of the next day but one, when the moon would be at the full"

"And he?" asked Tabus anxiously

"He called the brief hours which I required hiirl, "and they seeency availed; what you predicted for e I should wantonly throay--I constantly reood fortune Fate destined forand took prematurely as already so close at hand; for--do you reht when the moon was at the full a new period of the ut deceives me--now it awaits ht, or the next, or the following one, your spirits alone can know; but yesterday was surely too soon to expect the new happiness"

"And he?" asked the old dame

"He certainly did not make it easy for ed to yield I granted only his earnest desire to seeI fancy I can still hear hi iht which kept him from me And no? For another's sake he lets me wait for hiinning of his infaame"

She had uttered the last words in a hoarse cry, but Tabus answered soothingly: "Hush, child, hush! The first thing is to see clearly, if I am to interpret correctly what is shown me here The demons are to be fully informed they have required it But you? Did you come to hear whether the spirits still intend to keep the promise they made then?"