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Among the four people on the earth, however, the thing was being discussed even more hotly. Van Emmon found himself enthusiastically backing Somat, the liberal-minded one. "He's got the right idea," declared the geologist. "Let the Sanusians come over of their own free will! Let the law of competition show what it can do! Dandy experiment!"
There was infinite respect in the way Rolla used his name; had she known a word to indicate human infallibility, such as "your majesty," she would have used it. "There is a saying among our people that the world be round. How can this be so?" "Yet it is true," answered Somat, "although ye must know that it be not round like a fruit or a pebble.
We have little heart for the work. Of what use is it, with no women to start the race afresh?" Rolla started despite herself. Was this the reason why she, despite her savagery, had been made so welcome? "Ye have not told me," said she hurriedly, "why ye and the others all wear such curious garments when ye eat." Somat was taken off his guard.
"I seek," Rolla replied, "food and rest. I have traveled far and am weary." "Ye look it," commented the man. His name, Rolla found out later, was Somat. "Ye shall have both food and rest. However, whence came ye?" "From the other side of the world," answered Rolla calmly. Instantly she noted that the twelve became greatly excited when Somat translated her statement.
"We'd have to take our chances, replied Somat energetically, "like good sports! If we can't demonstrate our worth to them, enough to hold their respect, we'd deserve to be snowed under!" "Not while I'm alive!" snarled Sorplee. "If they come here, they've got to give up their wilderness ways, right off! We can't stand savagery!
We forgot that ye might know nothing of this 'magic." He considered deeply, apparently trying to put himself in her place. "Know ye not fire?" Of course, she did not know what he meant. "Then," with an inspiration, "perchance ye have see the flower, the red flower, ye might call " "Aye!" eagerly. "Doth it grow here?" Somat smiled with satisfaction, and beckoned for her to follow him.
Somat humored her childlike view-point. "We have the seed of the flower, too," said he. He secured a box of matches from a shelf, and showed her the "little sticks." "Exactly what the angel showed me!" jubilated Holla. "I have come to the right place!" Back she went to her food, her face radiant, and all her lurking suspicion of the twelve completely gone.
"These gods," she declared with sublime confidence, "can do no wrong! Whatever they propose must be for the best! I have done my part; now it is all in the hands of the Flowing Blossom!" Not until they reached the head of the valley which had been her home did Rolla ask Somat as to the plan. He answered: "Ye and the other woman shall stay here with me, on this hill." He produced a telescope.
Most of the men were now dressed in rough working garments, similar to what one sees in modern factories. Whimsical sort of gods, Rolla told herself, but gods just the same. "Tell me," began Somat, as the woman sat on the floor before him he could not get her to use a chair "tell me, what caused thee to leave thy side of the world? Did ye arouse the wrath of thy fellow creatures?"
Among the four people on the earth, however, the thing was being discussed even more hotly. Van Emmon found himself enthusiastically backing Somat, the liberal-minded one. "He's got the right idea," declared the geologist. "Let the Sanusians come over of their own free will! Let the law of competition show what it can do! Dandy experiment!"
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