Chapter 13

They had spied on him on nights of moon, and had heard him talk to one whom their eyes could not see, though they were trained to find the twigs which the big cat leopard had broken with his velvet paw. Now the brothers of this boy would have put him away because of his madness, for this is the law of the N’gombi, that the mad are dead minds which are chained to the earth. But the king of the N’gombi (who was a very sick man) liked his son, who was the child of his best loved wife, and to those who sat in family pa…