"Shaka!" breathed the girl, between laughter and fear.
"Did you wish it—what I did—said?"
"Lord," confessed the girl, "I wish to be as beautiful as the sun-goddess, so that you must—do—say—!"
She crept closer. It was as if she caressed the soldier.
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IX
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On another day Hoshiko asked:—
"Lord, must it be soon—now—that you die?"