At least she died, I
forget how. Then the lords of the Inca blood began to turn towards Kari
because he was royal and wise, which would have meant civil war when I
had been gathered to the Sun. Therefore Urco poisoned him, or so it was
rumoured; at any rate, he vanished away, and often since then I have
mourned him."
"The dead come to life again sometimes, Inca."
"Yes, yes, Lord-from-the-Sea, that happens; the gods who took them away
bring them back--and this servant of yours--they say he is so like
to Kari that he might be the same man grown older. And--why did those
regiments, all of them officered by men who used to love Kari, go over
to Huaracha to-day, and why do rumours run through the land like the
wind that springs up suddenly in fine weather? Tell me of this servant
of yours and how you found him in the sea."
"Why should I tell you, Inca? Is it because you want to kill him who is
so like to this lost Kari of yours?"
"No, no--gods can keep each other's counsel, can they not? It is because
I would give--oh! half my godship to know that he is alive.
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