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We Give a Sign

           IhaveworkedoutthereckoningsaswellasIcan,withoutknowingourexactposition; andImakeoutthattheeclipseshouldbeginhereaboutteno’clocktomorrownight,andlasttillhalf-pasttwelve.Foranhourandahalforsothereshouldbealmosttotaldarkness." 

           "Well,"saidSirHenry,"Isupposewehadbetterriskit." 

           Iacquiesced,thoughdoubtfully,foreclipsesarequeercattletodealwithitmightbeacloudynight,forinstance,orourdatesmightbewrongandsentUmbopatosummonthechiefsback. Presentlytheycame,andIaddressedthemthus 

           "GreatmenoftheKukuanas,andthou,Infadoos,listen. Welovenottoshowourpowers,fortodosoistointerferewiththecourseofnature,andtoplungetheworldintofearandconfusion. Butsincethismatterisagreatone,andasweareangeredagainstthekingbecauseoftheslaughterwehaveseen,andbecauseoftheactoftheIsanusiGagool, whowouldhaveputourfriendIgnositodeath,wehavedeterminedtobreakarule,andtogivesuchasignasallmenmaysee. Comehither";andIledthemtothedoorofthehutandpointedtotheredballofthemoon. "Whatseeyethere?" 

           "Weseethesinkingmoon,"answeredthespokesmanoftheparty. 

           "Itisso.Nowtellme,cananymortalmanputoutthatmoonbeforeherhourofsetting,andbringthecurtainofblacknightdownupontheland?" 

           Thechieflaughedalittleatthequestion. "No,mylord,thatnomancando. Themoonisstrongerthanmanwholooksonher,norcanshevaryinhercourses." 

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