"I knew I should find thee, Shway Cloots."
It said something for Cloots that he did not cease smiling all at once, that he gave no outward sign, and that he was able to answer quite soon and quite steadily in the same dialect.
"Hast been looking for me, Moung Poh Sin?"
"I did not have to look, Shway. It was written."
"Hast been waiting for me, then?"
"It was written I would have to wait."
"Was it also written that I had become any safe or easy game to track into a corner?" demanded Cloots.
"I did not track thee."
"Half an hour ago I left the docks, newly landed from Moulmein. No man could have given thee word of my return. No man knew if ever I should return."
"I knew."