Was it you I heard calling?
No, I could not have heard--I remember now.

What a strange power! I am not sure that it is right to do this thing, Vanamee.

I--I HAD to come.

I do not know why.
It is a great force--a power--I don't like it.

Vanamee, sometimes it frightens me." Vanamee put his chin in the air.
"If I had wanted to, sir, I could have made you come to me from back there in the Quien Sabe ranch." The priest shook his head.
"It troubles me," he said, "to think that my own will can count for so little.