“What do you want of me?”
“I come to thank you.”
“What, then, have I done?”
“You have brought the tribute money.”
I did not understand, and I answered:—
“No. One soul I may have destroyed, but two I have saved to-night. For I have slain the spectre that preyed upon them and I have set them free from bondage.”
The voice answered:—
“Go into the house and see.”
Then again I was filled with apprehension. I turned to go in at my door, and, as I did so, I heard footsteps treading in the direction of the burn, and a fading voice which cried, like an echo:—
“And then come to me.”