36/52 May the boy be better for it; and Huneefa is surely a mistress of dawut. Do not be afraid.' 'How am I to fear the absolutely non-existent ?' said Hurree Babu, talking English to reassure himself. It is an awful thing still to dread the magic that you contemptuously investigate--to collect folk-lore for the Royal Society with a lively belief in all Powers of Darkness. He had been out with Hurree on the Road ere now. |