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Updated: May 3, 2025
The Burman ascended some broken steps, entered the temple, and crossed to one of the opposite corners. A dim light was burning in a small apartment, which had been roofed with thatch. A man was lying, dressed, on a heap of leaves at one side. He started up as the officer entered. "Who is it who comes here at this hour?" he asked. "Thekyn," the officer answered.
It was doubtless used as a call to prayer. However, Stanley rightly conjectured that, in this case, it was a summons to a meal; and was soon seated on the ground by the side of the priest. Little was said at breakfast, which Stanley enjoyed heartily. "So my friend Thekyn is starting for the wars. What think you of it, my son? Shall we easily overpower these barbarians?
I would gladly do all in my power for his son, and this is but a small thing that you ask. Let him enter." Stanley went in. The priest took down the little lamp, from a shelf on which it stood, and held it near the lad's face. Then he turned, with a smile, to Thekyn: "The painting is but clumsily done," he said, "though maybe it would pass without close examination.
In truth, I should not be sorry to have some of the creatures out of the way; for they swarm round here so thickly that I have to pay great heed, when I walk, lest I step upon them." "Have you been troubled with robbers, of late, father?" Thekyn asked. "They trouble me not at all," the priest said. "Men come, sometimes. They may be robbers, or they may not. I ask no questions.
"I am glad to see you," the Phongee said, "whatever may bring you here. You have not fallen into trouble, I hope?" "In no way, good priest. I am starting, in two days, down the river to fight the barbarians; but before I go, I want you to do me a favour." The Phongee smiled. "Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man."
If any should ask me about my companion, I shall reply that he is one who has undertaken to rid me of some of the snakes, who dispute the possession of this place with me." Thekyn motioned to Stanley to come outside the hut with him and, when he did so, handed to him a small but heavy bag. "This is lead," he said. "You will need it, when you start on your journey down the country.
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