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? ? ? ? '"I am Naass," I said.
? ? ? ? '"You?" she said. "You?" And she crept close that she might look upon me.
? ? ? ? '"Yes," I answered; "I am Naass, head man of Akatan, the last of the blood, as you are the last of the blood."
? ? ? ? 'And she laughed. By all the things I have seen and the deeds I have done may I never hear such a laugh again. It put the chill to my soul, sitting there in the White Silence, alone with death and this woman who laughed.
? ? ? ? '"Come!" I said, for I thought she wandered. "Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan."
? ? ? ? 'But she shoved her face in his yellow mane, and laughed till it seemed the heavens must fall about our ears. I had thought she would be overjoyed at the sight of me, and eager to go back to the memory of old times, but this seemed a strange form to take.
? ? ? ? '"Come!' I cried, taking her strong by the hand. "The way is long and dark. Let us hurry!'
? ? ? ? '"Where?" she asked, sitting up, and ceasing from her strange mirth.
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