He is afraid of dead men that he has killed." The young man gave his attention now to the extraordinary story which the girl told as if it were a common occurrence.
"But where are your people, your family and friends?
Why do they not send the man away ?" "They're all back there in the sand," she said with a sad little flicker of a smile and a gesture that told of tragedy.

"I said the prayer over them.

Mother always wanted it when we died.

There wasn't anybody left but me.

I said it, and then I came away.