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Rh now to understand. Max also seemed to understand. Only the police captain looked uncomprehendingly round at all of them.

Baraka had controlled himself and now he bowed to the officer.

"Alarna is the wife—the favorite—of our Soesoehoenan," he explained excitedly. "Oh, how plain—now that we know it is Ukano!

"Listen!" he said, seeing the police captain did not yet understand. "In the time of the Soesoehoenan, the father of this Soesoehoenan, Alarna was a young girl, wonderful in her beauty—so soft skin! It seem through it a light was shining; dark eyes, like when water is seen at night by light of star. So all young men would have her for wife; but she would have none of them. The Soesoehoenan begins, then, to be sick