“My coming was foretold by the Rhamda Avec, I understand. Is this in accord with the words of the Jarados?”
The Rhamda looked up expectantly and spoke with evident anxiety.
“Can you tell me anything about the Jarados?”
“Let us forgo that,” side-stepped Watson. “Possibly I can tell you much that you would like to know. What I want to know is, just how well prepared you are to receive me?”
“Then you come from the Jarados!”
“Perhaps.”
“What do you know about him?”
“This: someone should have preceded me! The fact and the substance-you were to have it inside three days! It has been several hundred times the space allotted! Is it not so?”
The Rhamda's eyes were pin-pointed with eagerness.
“Then it IS true! You are from the Jarados! You know the great Rhamda Avec—you have seen him!”