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328 have thought. What did it seem to you, I was?"

Karl was light with the abandon of his infinite flight, sitting so commonly upon a bench. He was brave and clear, for his mind held one memory:—what this strange man, the first time, had seemed to him to be. The words came unhindered.

"It seemed," he stopped he began again, "the first time that I saw you, I said to myself: 'He looks like a ridiculous Jesus.

The bearded man gazed on beyond him. His head moved dreaming. His hands floated underneath his beard.

"You were right in what you said to yourself," he spoke. "For I am John the Baptist."