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"But the wo vainly for him to resume "Is she not white?"

He did not answer; apparently he did not hear

"I ask regarding Queen Naladi--is she also of your people?"

"We are alike children of the Sun," he responded, his tone more sullen "She is of the Sun and was sent to rule; sent by the Sun to lead us once again unto our own"

"She told you this?"

"We know it by signs, by the prophecy of our fathers; ere long looking for her co; she was promised us by the Sun In the hour of deepest need, a wooddess in earthly foruide us She came out of the mystery, and ait her will"

"Then she is not of your race?"

"I have answered--she came to our people from the Sun"

I have not often felt too secure while in any position of danger, but this feeble old savage rested so helplessly back against the base of the altar, I lost all thought of hiuard Sunk in contemplation of his story, I sat carelessly, my head somewhat lowered as I mentally viewed the picture drawn Cairnesindistinctly, and I turned partially so that I er, the priest hurled hi up one ared stone aimed full at my head As we clinched and went down, the incarnate fiend buried his yellow teeth in ht of years, I found le A very derip was satanic in its hate In truth it was Cairnes who seized hiainst the two of us, until we bound hi except his eyes could move