Chapter 30

“All nights and all days I think of you, lord, being a maiden with a wonderful mind, and I speak also to the elder men and they listen to me. This has happened to no woman before. Lord, I was one of the women who guarded the tree when Bosambo’s hunters came.” “O woman, this you must tell me when I wake,” said the weary Bones, and dismissed one to whom he was as a god. He came back to headquarters not unpleased with himself, stopping at the Ochori city just long enough to impose a fine, which Bosambo bore, since his…