You remember," he
added with a flash of his dark eyes, "I always say that you and I go
there together one day."
"But what is the country, Kari?"
"Master, not know its name. It big and have many names, but you first
white man who ever come here, that why people think you God. Now you go
sleep again; to-morrow we talk."
I shut my eyes, being so very tired, and as I learned afterwards, slept
for twelve hours or more, to awake on the morning of the following day,
feeling wonderfully stronger and able to eat with appetite. Also Kari
brought me water and washed me, and clean clothes which he had found in
the ship that I put on.
Thus it went on for a long while and day by day I recovered strength
till at length I was almost as I had been when I married Blanche Aleys
in the church of St. Margaret at Westminster. Only now sorrow had
changed me within and without my face had grown more serious, while
to it hung a short yellow beard which, when I looked at my reflection,
seemed to become me well enough. That beard puzzled me much, since
such are not grown in a day, although it is true that as yet it was not
over-long.
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