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Queen Sheba’s Ring

CHAPTER XVII
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Look, this is the dress of marriage," and he pointed to his fine embroidered robe and rich ornaments.
"Then, where's your wife ?" asked Higgs.
"I do not know and I do not care," he answered, "for I did not like that wife.

Also it is all nothing as I am not quite married to her.
Fung marriage between big people takes two days to finish, and if not finished does not matter.

So she marry some one else if she like, and I too." "What happened then ?" I asked.
"Oh, this, father.

When we had eaten the marriage feast, but before we past before priest, suddenly we hear a thunder and see a pillar of fire shoot up into sky, and sitting on top of it head of Harmac, which vanish into heaven and stop there.

Then everybody jump up and say: "'Magic of white man! Magic of white man! White man kill the god who sit there from beginning of world, now day of Fung finished according to prophecy.


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