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Updated: May 11, 2025
He had sent messages to the Priest, entreating him to leave the island, and other messages to Aimata suggesting that she should exert her influence over her father, if he hesitated. The Priest refused to leave the Temple. He trusted in his gods and his sacrifices he believed they might avert the fatality that threatened his sanctuary.
Aimata pointed to the abyss, and hid her face on his bosom. "My father says," she whispered, "that it is your doing." The Captain started. "Does your father know that I am on the island?" She looked up at him with a quick glance of reproach. "Do you think I would tell him, and put your life in peril?" she asked.
The dead calm had returned and the boat was too large to be easily managed by one man alone at the oars. "The breeze may come again," he said. "Wait here, my angel, for the chance." As he spoke, the deep silence of the forest below them was broken by a sound. A harsh wailing voice was heard, calling: "Aimata! Aimata!" "My father!" she whispered; "he has missed me. If he comes here you are lost."
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