"Very glad to see you back with us, sir, and getting well, I trust, especially after we had given you and Mr.Hans up as dead." I thanked him and drank the soup, asking him to cook me something more substantial as I was starving, which he departed to do.

Then I sent Hans to find Lord Ragnall, who it appeared was out walking in the town.

No sooner had they gone than Harut entered looking more dignified than ever and, bowing gravely, seated himself upon the mat in the Eastern fashion.
"Some strong spirit must go with you, Lord Macumazana," he said, "that you should live today, after we were sure that you had been slain." "That's where you made a mistake.

Your magic was not of much service to you there, friend Harut." "Yet my magic, as you call it, though I have none, was of some service after all, Macumazana.

As it chanced I had no opportunity of breathing in the wisdom of the Child for two days from the hour of our arrival here, because I was hurt on the knee in the fight and so weary that I could not travel up the mountain and seek light from the eyes of the Child.