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Updated: June 3, 2025
That is why you wished to find your people, and came to Riolama to seek them; and when you knew when I cruelly told you that they would never be found, then you imagined that that strange feeling in your heart must remain a secret for ever, and you could not endure the thought of your loneliness. If you had not fainted so quickly, then I should have told you what I must tell you now.
"Ah, why did you let me come to Riolama? I would come! I made him come old grandfather, sleeping there: he does not count, but you you! After you had heard my story, and knew that it was all for nothing! And all I wished to know was there in you. Oh, how sweet it is! But a little while ago, what pain!
And I was forced to believe him; for had Rima been in the wood they would not have been there. She was not there, this much I had discovered. Had she, then, lost her way, or perished on that long journey from Riolama? Or had she returned only to fall into the hands of her cruel enemies?
I went to grandfather and first begged and then commanded him to take me to Riolama; but he would not obey, nor give attention to what I said, but whenever I spoke to him of it he rose up and hurried from me; and when I followed he flung back a confused and angry reply, saying in the same breath that it was so long since he had been to Riolama that he had forgotten where it was, and that no such place existed.
"No, no," I answered, after considering his words. "She feared to return; she went away to hide herself in the great mountains beyond Riolama. She could not come back." "But she came back!" he persisted, with that triumphant gleam in his eyes once more.
And although you will never be able to do more than old Nuflo for her, perhaps she will be better pleased; and you, senor, better able to exist innocently by her side, without eating flesh, since you will always have that rare flower to delight you. But the story would take long to tell. You shall hear it all as we journey to Riolama.
The result of that wasted day was a determination on my part to escape from Runi as soon as possible, although at the risk of making a deadly enemy of him and of being compelled to go on that long journey to Riolama with no better weapon than a hunting-knife.
You have seen the false water of the mirage on the savannah, when the sun shines bright and hot; and if one were to follow it one would at last fall down and perish, with never a cool drop to moisten one's parched lips. And your hope, Rima this hope to find your people which has brought you all the way to Riolama is a mirage, a delusion, which will lead to destruction if you will not abandon it."
It was a pitiable sight, and moving quickly to her side I touched her on the shoulder and asked her to forgive him. The response came quickly enough. Turning to him once more, she said: "I forgive you, grandfather. And now get up and take me to Riolama." He rose, but only to his knees.
Nuflo was not ready to start yet; he was enamoured of the unaccustomed comforts of a dry sleeping-place and a fire blown about by no wind and into which fell no hissing raindrops. Not for two days more would he consent to set out on the return journey, and if he could have persuaded me our stay at Riolama would have lasted a week.
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