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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER LXXXII
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Proceed now, and relate all you know of that place.

Your narration heard, we will list to Varnopi." With a profound inclination the traveler obeyed.
But soon Donjalolo interrupted him.

"What say you, Zuma, about the secret cavern, and the treasures therein?
A very different account, this, from all I have heard hitherto; but perhaps yours is the true version.

Go on." But very soon, poor Zuma was again interrupted by exclamations of surprise.

Nay, even to the very end of his mountings.
But when he had done, Donjalolo observed, that if from any cause Zuma was in error or obscure, Varnopi would not fail to set him right.
So Varnopi was called upon.
But not long had Varnopi proceeded, when Donjalolo changed color.
"What!" he exclaimed, "will ye contradict each other before our very face.


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