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The Wizard

CHAPTER XI
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Noma, you know my plight: I must win wisdom or fall for ever, and you alone can help me; for under this new rule, I can no longer buy a youth or maid for purposes of witchcraft, even if one could be found fitted to the work.

Choose then: shall we go back or forward?
Here trance will not help us; for those entranced cannot read the future, nor can they hold communion with the dead, being but asleep.

Choose, Noma." "I have chosen," she answered.

"Never yet have I turned my back upon a venture, nor will I do so now.

Come life, come death, I will submit me to your wish, though there are few women who would dare as much for any man.


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