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Updated: September 12, 2025
Only I noted that the dog which had followed us from the house clung close to our heels and now and again whimpered uneasily. "The beast sees what we cannot see," whispered Palka in explanation. "See!" she exclaimed to Martina, "those that were placed here three days ago are all emptied and neatly piled together by the ghosts. I told Hodur that they did this, but he would not believe me.
"Only that my niece, who for a while was a servant in the palace at Byzantium before she was driven away with others after the Empress fell, saw her there. Indeed, it was her business to wait upon her and her father the Prince. Therefore, she is interested in her fate." "It seems that you are more interested than your niece, who has never spoken a word to me concerning her," answered Palka.
Now let us pack them up in the baskets and begone, for the sun sets and the moon rises within the half of an hour. I would not be here in the dark for ten pieces of pure gold." "Then go swiftly, Palka," I said, "for we bide here this night." "Are you mad?" she asked. "Not at all," I answered.
"Or would wild beasts take the food and pile the dishes neatly together and replace the flat stones on the mouths of the jars of milk and water, as a housewife might? Oh! do not laugh. Of late this has always been done, as I who often fetch the vessels know well." "Have you ever seen these ghosts, Palka?" "Yes, once I saw one of them.
Yet that they eat I know well enough." "How do you know, Palka?" "For a good reason. With the others in this village I supply the offerings of their food. The story runs that once the great building, of which this house is a part, was a college of heathen priests whose duty it was to make offerings to the dead in the royal tombs.
"A wise man once told me that if one who is blind can but come face to face with a spirit, he sees it and thereby regains his sight. If you would know the truth, that is why I have wandered so far from my own country to find some land where ghosts may be met." "Now I am sure that you are mad," exclaimed Palka. "Come, Hilda, and leave this fool to make trial of his cure for blindness."
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