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But he drew his poniard and gravely sounded the rock. "You give a strange turn to our speech," he said. "It sounds strangely, indeed as strange as your answers." He looked at us quizzically. "I wonder where you learned it! Well, all that you can explain to the Afyo Maie." His head bowed and his arms swept out in a wide salaam. "Be pleased to come with me!" he ended abruptly. "In peace?" I asked.
We passed out of that gay little pavilion that had come to be home to us even in this alien place. The guards stood at attention. "You, Sattoya, stand by the globe," he ordered one of them. "Should the Afyo Maie ask, say that I am on my way with the strangers even as she has commanded."
My men are on guard outside." He came closer to us, the old mocking gaiety sparkling in his eyes. "But I spoke too quickly," he whispered. "Whether it is because the Afyo Maie fears their tongues or " he laughed at Larry. "The maids are not yours!"
The water was warm and I felt the unwonted tingling of life in every vein increase; something from it seemed to pulse through the skin, carrying a clean vigorous vitality that toned every fibre. Tiring at last, we swam to the edge and drew ourselves out. The green dwarf quickly clothed himself and Larry rather carefully donned his uniform. "The Afyo Maie has summoned us, Doc," he said.
They sauntered up to us leisurely; the surprised interest in their faces tempered by the same inhumanly gay malice that seemed to be characteristic of all these people we had as yet seen. "The Afyo Maie awaits them, Rador," said one.
"So much for what two brave men can do!" He paused thoughtfully. "Bones and dust jostle not each other for place against the grave wall!" he added oddly. "But if bones and dust have revealed to them that they still live " He stopped abruptly, eyes seeking the globe that bore and sent forth speech. "The Afyo Maie has sent me to watch over you till she summons you," he announced clearly.
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