As I watched I observed that the discoloration was beginning to fade.

First it vanished from the extremities, then from the larger limbs, and lastly from the trunk.
Then in turn came the third stage of relaxation, the second stage of stiffness or _rigor_, and the first stage of after-death collapse.

When all these had rapidly succeeded each other, Indaba-zimbi quietly woke up.
I was too astonished to speak; I simply looked at him with my mouth open.
"Well, Macumazahn," he said, putting his head on one side like a bird, and nodding his white lock in a comical fashion, "it is all right; I have seen her." "Seen who ?" I said.
"The Star, your wife, and the little maid.

They are much frightened, but unharmed.

The Babyan-frau watches them.