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Swallow

CHAPTER XXI
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"Yes, I see now.

Look before you." Then they looked, both of them, and there painted in the air they saw the picture of a great mountain, standing by itself upon a plain, but with other mountains visible to the north and south of it.

This mountain was flat-topped, with precipices of red rock, and down its eastern slope ran five ridges shaped like the thumb and fingers of a mighty hand, while between the thumb and the first finger, as it were, a stream gushed out, upon the banks of which grew flat-topped trees with thick green leaves and white bloom.
"You have seen and you will remember, fearing nothing," she said in her vision.
"I have seen and I shall remember, fearing nothing," Ralph answered, and with the sound of his voice still echoing in her ears, Suzanne awoke in the guest-hut of Sigwe, and once more heard Sihamba breathing at her side, and felt the hand which she had outstretched to find her, pressed against her cheek.

But now there was a new sense of comfort in her heart, for she believed that without any doubt she had seen her husband, and that although they were separated, still the day would come when they should meet again, not in the spirit but in the flesh.
Now I, Suzanne Botmar, who tell this tale, had scarcely left Ralph's room upon that very night and laid myself down upon the settle when he called to me.

I ran back to the bed to find him sitting up in it wide awake and calm-eyed.
"Mother," he said, for so he still named me, "did you see Suzanne ?" "Hush, Ralph," I answered, "you are talking foolishly; wherever Suzanne may be, alas! she is not here." "She was here just now," he said, smiling, "for we have been talking together.


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