And so it must have come about, had it not been for the Shepherdess.

Also, I stayed away because those who have looked upon the Snake once do not desire to see him again.

Many years ago I was bride to the Snake, Deliverer, and, had I not fled, my fate would have been the fate of her who died this night." "Well, I do not wonder that you chose to go," said Leonard.
"Oh, Baas," broke in Otter, "why did you not shoot that old medicine-man as I told you?
It would have been easy when you were about it, Baas, and now he would have been broken like an eggshell thrown from a house-top, and not alive and full of the meat of malice.

He is mad with rage and wickedness, and I say that he will kill us all if he can." "I rather wish I had," said Leonard, pulling his beard.

"I thought of it, but could not do everything; and on future occasions, Otter, will you remember that your name is Silence?
Luckily, these people do not understand you: if they did you would ruin us all.