You are very fair; take the man in your own net, if you may, or let him be, which is better far." "I cannot let him be.

Would that I were able.

I must love him as I must hate the other whom he loves, yet some power hardens his heart against me.

Oh! great Shaman, you that peep and mutter, you who can read the future and the past, tell me what you have learned from your stars and divinations." "Already I have sought through many a secret, toilsome hour and learned this, Atene," he answered.

"You are right, the fate of yonder man is intertwined with yours, but between you and him there rises a mighty wall that my vision cannot pierce nor my familiars climb.