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Sherah!" he cried, dropping on his knees beside her and lifting up her head. "Ambroise!" she called out faintly, her pale face drawing away from his breast. "Sherah, why didst thou come here?" he said. "Thou! thou!" "To buy back my soul, Ambroise. And this is the last day of the year that I have spent here. Oh, why, why didst thou come? To-morrow all should have been well!"
At last he came to the door of the Tent in the late evening, and, intent not only to buy back the soul he had marketed for the sake of the memory of the woman, and believing that none would die for him and that he must die for himself he lifted the curtain and entered. Then he gave a great cry, for there she lay asleep, face downward, her forehead on the Purple Mat. "Sherah!
And as they looked amazed, the curtain of the Tent drew open, and one entered, clothed in red from head to foot; and they knew him to be the Scarlet Hunter, the lover of the lost, the Keeper of the Kimash Hills. Looking at them steadfastly he said to Sherah: "Thou has prevailed. To-night, at the setting of the sun, an old man died in Syria who uttered thy name as in a dream when he passed.
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