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Yet, O People of the Mist, those whom we thought gods have not been offered up wrongfully. Nay, this is the meaning of the sign: now are the true gods, Aca and Jal, appeased, because those who dared to usurp their power have gone down to doom. Therefore the curse is lifted from the land and the sunlight has come back to bless us."
Then, after some minutes, there crossed her face such a look as visits the face of one who, waking from sleep, strains his faculties to recapture some blissful and vanishing vision.... "Jal it is gone," said the gipsy woman. Aunt Rachel opened her eyes again. She repeated dully after Annabel: "It is gone." "Ghosts," the gipsy whispered presently, "are of the dead. Therefore it must have lived."
It was the custom of sacrifice which kept down the population to its low level, made the power of the priests absolute, and their wealth greater than that of all the other inhabitants of the country put together, for they chose the victims that had offended against Jal or against the mother-goddess, and confiscated their possessions to "the service of the temple."
At Lorient, too, M. Labrousse, a post-captain in the navy, made experiments to find out the best form to give to the rams of warships, while a literary man, M. Jal by name, was hunting all the old books and archives for everything touching the manoeuvres and tactics of ancient rowing ships and galleys.
Then he bethought him of Otter. Surely there was refuge in the god of blood and evil; and he cried to him: "The Mother has spoken, but the Mother is not the child. Say, O Jal, what is your command?" Otter made no answer, because he did not understand; but Juanna replied swiftly: "I am the mouth of Jal, as Jal is my hand. When I speak I speak the words of Jal.
"Tell me of Jal, your lord." "Jal is as Jal was, merry and somewhat drunken. He speaks our language very ill, yet when he was last in liquor he sang a song which told of deeds that he, and he whom they name the Deliverer, had wrought together down in the south, rescuing the goddess Aca from some who had taken her captive. At least, so I understood that song."
All'ers haw sar the habben foki banders apre a tute, an' tute'll jal sikker men dush an' tukli. Once a young man courted three girls together, and none of the three knew he was courting the two others. And that youth lived in a little place near the side of the great salt water, and one night all the girls came at once together to him, and none of the girls knew the others were coming there.
When the wind is high, move the tent to the other side of the hedge behind it. That is to say, change sides in an emergency. "Hatch apre! Hushti! The prastramengro's wellin! Jal the graias avree! Prastee!" "Jump up! Wide awake there! The policeman's coming! Run the horses off! Scamper!" This is an alarm in camp, and constitutes a sufficiently graphic picture.
Do his bidding and mine, or die, you disobedient servant." This was the end of it. Nam was beaten; for the first time in his life he must own a master, and that master the gods whom he had himself discovered and proclaimed. "So be it," he said suddenly. "The old order passes, and the new order comes. So be it! Let your will be done, O Aca and O Jal.
A while ago, O Aca and O Jal, you changed the worship of this people, forbidding the victims who had been prepared to be offered up at the spring festival, and lo! there has been no spring. Therefore we ask a word of you on this matter, for the people have consulted together, and say by our voice that they will have no gods who kill the spring.
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