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The People Of The Mist

CHAPTER VII
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Listen now, this is the pay I proffer you.
"If you succeed, and the Shepherdess is saved alive from the grip of the Yellow Devil, I promise this on her behalf and on my own: that I will guide you to the land of the People of the Mist, and show you a way to win for yourself all those other countless stones that are hidden there." "Good," said Leonard, "but why do you promise on behalf of your mistress and yourself?
What has she got to do with it ?" "Without her nothing can be done, White Man.

This people is great and strong, and we have no force with which to conquer them in war.

Here craft must be your spear." "You must speak more clearly, Soa.

I cannot waste time in guessing riddles.

How will you conquer this people by craft, and what has Miss Rodd, whom you name the Shepherdess, to do with the matter ?" "That you shall learn by-and-by, after you have rescued her, White Man; till then my lips are shut.


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