Could a man eat as much as he did--all our basketful of food?
Does a man talk of cities that he visited in his youth over a hundred years ago, or declare that my dead husband spoke to him in his dreams?
No, no, he is a ghost like those upon the ship." "So much the better," answered Tua cheerfully, "since ghosts have been good friends to us, for had it not been for them I should have been dead or shamed to-day." "That we shall find out at the end of the story," said Asti, who was cross and weary, for the heat of the sun was great.

"Meanwhile, follow on.

There is nothing else to do." For hour after hour they walked, till at length towards evening, when they were almost exhausted, they struggled up a long rise of sand and rocks, and from the crest of it perceived a large walled town set in a green and fertile valley not very far beneath them.

Towards this town Kepher, who marched at a distance in front, guided them till they reached a clump of trees on the outskirts of the cultivated land.

Here he halted, and when they came up to him, led them among the trees.
"Now," he said, "drop your veils and bide here, and if any should come to you, say that you are poor wandering players who rest.