“What did you want––by the hut yonder? Your course lay another way.”

“Ain’t a free man a right up there?”

“It is the shrine of the Golden One.”

“It ain’t marked sech.”

“But you have learned––now. It is better in a strange country to learn such things before than afterwards.”

“The same to you––’bout strange people.”

The Priest smoked idly a few minutes longer.

“Where is the other?” he asked again.

“Ask your Golden Man.”

“He knows only the dead. Shall I wait?”