"Unless the gods will it, none may enter there." "Say, Soa," Leonard asked again, "are you not afraid of being here in your own land ?" "I am much afraid, Deliverer, for if I am found out then I die.

Yet many years have gone by since I fled; few live who knew me, and, perchance, none remember me.

Also now I do not wear my hair after the fashion of my people, and therefore I may escape, unless the priests discover me by their magic.

And now I would sleep." On the following morning at dawn Leonard rose and, accompanied by Francisco, walked into the courtyard.

This time the soldiers did not try to stop them, but the priests were still standing in front of Juanna's door, looking like spectres in the grey mist.