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 "Does this one do that?" asked Fen, eagerly. "What does the carving mean? It looks like people."

"It is. Two people standing hand in hand,—and it protects you from loneliness. It isn't as powerful a charm as some of them are, and it doesn't always work; but on the whole, I think it does pretty well."

He hung it about Fen's neck as he spoke, muttering a few words of Arabic. Fen, quite overcome, clasped his hands fervently.

"I sha'n't ever feel lonely with this on," he said, "I'll feel as if you were there. And oh," he added, "it was you that came in the middle of the water and made such a beautiful song, all for me! And the star was my night-lamp and shined in at me."

"I'm glad it obeyed instructions," said Siddereticus.