Ere his ghost leaves you it shall recall your own, which till the corpse is cold stays ever close at hand.

I did not think to find a coward in you, Noma." "I am not a coward, as you know well," she answered passionately, "for many a deed of magic have we dared together in past days.

But this is fearsome, to die that my body may become the home of the ghost of a dead man, who perchance, having entered it, will abide there, leaving my spirit houseless, or perchance will shut up the doors of my heart in such fashion that they never can be opened.

Can it not be done by trance as aforetime?
Tell me, Hokosa, how often have you thus talked with the dead ?" "Thrice, Noma." "And what chanced to them through whom you talked ?" "Two lived and took no harm; the third died, because the awakening medicine lacked power.

Yet fear nothing; that which I have with me is of the best.