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The Wizard

CHAPTER VII
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Also you would do well to put away that fair woman whose price was the murder of him that fed you." "I cannot do it," answered the wizard.

"I will listen to your teaching, but I will not rob my heart of her it craves alone.

White Man, I am not like the rest of my nation.

I have not sought after women; I have but one wife, and she is old and childless.

Now, for the first time in my days, I love this girl--ah, you know not how!--and I will take her, and she shall be the mother of my children." "Then, Hokosa, you will take her to your sorrow," answered Owen solemnly, "for she will learn to hate you who have robbed her of royalty and rule, giving her wizardries and your grey hairs in place of them." And thus for that night they parted..


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