[The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Golden Fleece CHAPTER IV 22/28
You were faithful to me in the old time: have you more care for her than for me? I feel all the power and thirst of youth in me: the gods did not let me live out my life: may they not intend that I shall take it up again now? Besides, I wear Miriam's body: could I not seem to others to be Miriam indeed? How could they guess the truth ?" "I will think of what you say, princess," said Kamaiakan.
"Something may perhaps be done; but it must be done gradually: you would need much instruction in the ways of the new world before you could safely enter into its life.
Leave that to me.
I am loyal as ever: is it not to fulfil the oath made to you that I am here? and what would Miriam be to me, were she not your inheritor? Be satisfied for the present: in a few days we will meet and speak again." "The power is yours, Kamaiakan: it is well to argue, when with a word you can banish me forever! Yet what if I were to say that, unless you consent to the thing I desire, I will not show you where the treasure lies ?" "Princess Semitzin!" exclaimed the Indian, "remember that it is not against me, but against the gods, that you would contend.
The gods know that I have no care for treasure.
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