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160 and Yeyema. From the latter I accepted an invitation to return with them to Tehana, in order to join a great excursion in one of their floating villages to the icefields and the city of Scalascala. Alvarez and Vandalia having got into conversation, Yeyema and myself took leave of them for a time, and walked among the people. I met nearty all the ladies whose acquaintance I had made at the ball, and also many fresh ones. The people were still arriving, refreshments were partaken of, and many games introduced, in which this cheerful and happy people, old and young, joined with the enthusiasm of children.

I again sought out Alvarez, and we left the dreamy Pendalozzi Valley for the palace before the masses began to depart, and while the games and other amusements were still at their height; for, notwithstanding the gaiety of the throng, I enjoyed myself more alone with Alvarez than with the many.

On our way I inquired if there were no plotting or scheming over love matters in Neuroomia.

"Lovers are perfectly free to think out their own affairs, and what course in life they intend to pursue," was the reply. "You surely do not think that any one else would interfere with them?"