For the rest, were
she but mine, I think I should not grudge her price whate'er it be."
Quilla looked at Kari frowning over the spear that when he appeared she
had lifted, as though to defend herself, which in my case she had not
thought needful.
"So the sea breeds men of my own race also," she said, addressing him.
"Tell me, O Stranger, how did you and yonder white god come to this
isle?"
"Riding on the ocean billows, riding for thousands of leagues," he
answered. "And you, O Lady, how did you come to this isle?"
"Riding on the moonbeams," she replied, smiling, "I, the daughter of the
Moon, who am named Moon and wear her symbol on my brow."
"Did I not tell you so?" exclaimed Kari to me with a gloomy air.
Then Quilla went on:
"Strangers, I was out fishing with two of my maidens and we had drifted
far from land. As the sun sank I caught sight of the smoke of your fire,
and having been told that this isle was desert, my heart drew me to
discover who had lit it. So, though my maidens were afraid, hither
I sailed and paddled, and the rest you know.
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