“So God has apparently saved them.”
“All thanks be to Him!” cried the doctor enthusiastically.
“But in what direction shall we look for them?”
“Is there nothing more on the kite?”
“There were several other words, but on a part torn by the branches; it is hard to read them.”
Both leaned their heads over the paper, and only after a lengthy examination were they able to spell:
“The rainy season has long since passed.”
“What does that mean?” asked the doctor.
“That the boy has lost his reckoning of time.”
“And in this way he tried to give the date as best he could.”