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The Wizard

CHAPTER XI
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Then he knelt before her, staring into her face with his solemn eyes and muttering: "Obey and sleep." Presently her limbs relaxed, and her head fell forward.
"Do you sleep ?" he asked.
"I sleep.

Whither shall I go?
It is the true sleep--test me." "Pass to the house of the white man, my rival.

Are you with him ?" "I am with him." "What does he ?" "He lies in slumber on his bed, and in his slumber he mutters the name of a woman, and tells her that he loves her, but that duty is more than love.

Oh! call me back I cannot stay; a Presence guards him, and thrusts me thence." "Return," said Hokosa starting.

"Pass through the earth beneath you and tell me what you see." "I see the body of the king; but were it not for his royal ornaments none would know him now." "Return," said Hokosa, "and let the eyes of your spirit be open.


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