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 "It may be," he said, "that one day I shall follow on your trail again."

Then he began to close the grave. But twice that he might look once more on Dawn he desisted and undid what he had done. When the work was finished, he turned slowly away.

"Now I will go back to my people," he said.

The fires of the tribe were days distant, and, without food or weapons, he was naked as he had come into the world. But he set his valiant