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In good spirits the boys returned to the sheepcote. The doctor left them at the "Old Hag's Rock." They took from him a closely-written note for Bacha Filina, who readily enough agreed to everything. He even sent Stephen to build the bench, and also gave permission to the boys to carry whey and flowers to the sick lady. Again it was Sunday. That day no one from the hut went to church.
Presently, standing a little to one side of me, with eyes on the old hag's and my hand held between her two, Maga began chanting in English. The fact that her voice was musical and low where the bag's had been high-pitched and rasping heightened interest, if nothing else. "You now four men," she began, with a little pause, and something like a swallow between each sentence.
And at that thought she drew herself into herself, and trying to harden her heart again, went to bed, but not to sleep; and bitterly she cried as she thought over the old hag's croon: "Quick joy, long pain, You will take your gift again." It might have been five o'clock the next morning when the clarion rang down the street.
Even the Stone God cannot foretell a woman's course when love draws her in opposite directions. May the Stone God pity you." The hag's ominous words, fitting so marvellously the real situation, frightened Rita and she cried, "Please let me out," but the gypsy held her hand, saying: "Sit still, ye fool; sit and listen.
There were gold and silver coin, and gems, and coral, and crystal, and amber, and the never-failing bag of money, and the invisible coat and hat, and rolls of books, and all manner of precious things. At the sight of so much wealth, the old hag's scowl changed to a smile of greedy joy. "I'll go right off and get a present from the sparrows," said she.
The place, or the sound of the money, makes the woman tell Datchery about Edwin's gift of three shillings and sixpence for opium. Datchery, "with a sudden change of countenance, gives her a sudden look." It does not follow that he is NOT Drood, for, though the hag's love of opium was known to Drood, Datchery is not to reveal his recognition of the woman.
But on the way, the son of seven mothers looked in on the Princess, just to tell her how he came to be delayed, and she, after reading the message on the potsherd, gave him another in its stead; so that when the lad reached the old hag's hut and asked her for the Jogi's cow, she could not refuse, but told the boy how to find it; and, bidding him of all things not to be afraid of the eighteen thousand demons who kept watch and ward over the treasure, told him to be off before she became too angry at her daughter's foolishness in thus giving away so many good things.
Balcom announced the object of his visit immediately, and while he was speaking he fingered a roll of bills which he had taken from his pocket the better to arouse the old hag's avariciousness. It had the desired effect and her eyes fairly gleamed with the craving of possession. "Do as I tell you, Meg," directed Balcom, "and I'll make you rich. Do you understand?
While the men were saddling, Brian called Turlough and told of the hag's word that she would meet him again "on a black day for him." "Now, what think you she meant by that, Turlough? Is this the meeting?" "No, master, for it is no meeting.
It seemed, if not his only path, still his nearest path to Pelagia; and in the meanwhile he was in the hag's power, and he must submit to his fate; so he took the letters and went out. 'And so you think that you are going to have her? chuckled Miriam to herself, when Philammon went out.
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