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A SECOND MEETING.

Kapálik took a seat, and showed his two arms to Nobokumar, who saw that both arms were broken.

The reader may remember that on the night when Nobokumar fled with Kopal-Kundala from the sea-shore, the Kapálik, in his search for them, had fallen from the summit of a sand-hill. He saved his body by holding out his hands, but his two arms were thereby broken. The Kapálik told all this to Nobokumar, and said, "The performance of my rites and ceremonies has not been much hindered by this, but I no longer have any strength in them; it hurts me even to collect wood."

Then he continued, "Not that I knew when I fell that my hands were broken, and my other limbs safe. When I fell I became