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Tatsu, who had listened eagerly to the commands, now flung back his head and drew a long breath. "My life being spent among wild creatures," he murmured as if to himself, "little skill have I in judging the ways of men. How shall I believe that in this desert of houses a true Dragon Maiden can be found?" Again he turned flashing eyes upon his host. "I mistrust you, Kano Indara!
The young voice had taken on strangely the timbre of the old as, in equal soberness, he answered, "Such, Kano Indara, though I be burdened with years as many as your own, will be the never-ceasing longing for my lost wife, Umè-ko." A little sob, loosed suddenly upon the night, sped past them. "What was it? Who is there?" cried Tatsu, sharply, wheeling round. Kano began to shake.
At that very time P'hra Indara, ruler of the highest heaven, dreamed a dream; and behold! in his sleep a costly jewel fell from his mouth to the lower earth; whereat P'hra Indara was troubled. Assembling all the hosts of heaven, the angels, and the genii, he showed them his dream, but they could not interpret it.
An instant later came the whisper, "very, very strange!" "Why do you repeat it?" cried Kano, irritably. "There was nothing strange in what I said." The parcel was now untied. Ando held a roll of papers outward. "Examine these, Kano Indara," he said impressively. "If I do not greatly mistake, the gods, at last, have heard your prayer." Kano went backward as if from fire. "No!
"I am the child of Kano Indara," she said. "He, too, has power of the gods, and I obey him. Oh, sir, believe that you, as I, are subject to his will, for if you set yourself against him " "Kano Indara concerns me not at all," cried Tatsu, half angrily. "It is with you, with you alone, I speak!" Umè poised at the very tip of the hill. "Look, sir, the plum tree," she whispered, pointing.
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