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All the way to the edge of the great Grass Jungle, where they had come in, a multitude went before and after establishing the tradition of their deliverance. Finally Cadman asked the people why they spoke no word of Dhoop Ki Dhil, excepting as to things finished. The people bowed their heads and one answered for them all: "It is finished. When we of the Grass Jungle mourn, we do not use words."
She restores the eyes of girlhood to the elder women, who have long been weary with yearning after dead little ones after dead men. She has taught the little people who cannot think the child-hearted people that Love-the-transcendent can never die! "Dhoop Ki Dhil? She is youth, eternal! She is motherhood the divine lotus of the world!"
"After a while Dhoop Ki Dhil came forward, moving like one in a trance, and said to the jungle man, 'Are you a god? and the jungle man answered her with shame, 'No, I am a common man. "Now that silk-merchant will tell no more. One doesn't blame him. The natives are not patient with such a tale of her. To hear that any man had taken her eye, maddened them.
It seemed to compass the planet with its golden power and to descend from the empyrean of sound; further and further transcending the voices of the wild the very heart of love, the very soul of light. But they saw no more of her; and the people next morning made no reply to Cadman's natural enquiry; no one would tell what had happened to Dhoop Ki Dhil.
Then searching them both earnestly with haggard eyes, he spoke direct: "Have you looked on Dhoop Ki Dhil, for whom you come so far? Have you heard her voice?" Both the Americans shook their heads. "Will you look on her in the paths of my understanding? Will you render yourselves to know her in the currents of my blood?" "We will," Cadman answered tensely.
"She says I am your guardian, sent by the gods, to destroy the serpent for your sake so saving the people." Cadman finished huskily. "But I didn't reach him, Cadman," Skag protested. "I didn't touch him inside!" As they all came into the village enclosure, Dhoop Ki Dhil slipped into a house near by, saying that Dhanah thought the child slept too deeply she would care for her.
Dhoop Ki Dhil did not walk, she did not run; but her glide was almost as swift as Dhanah's flight. When Skag met her face to face, he shivered with a shock of realisation her ineffable beauty glowed like coals in a trance of some unearthly devotion. Her human mind was not there an incomparable calm reigned in its stead. "Come!" he urged strangely.
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