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"I never saw him crosser, Kaku. I am glad it is you who reads the stars,
not I. Listen!"
As he spoke an angry roar reached them from the high deck above.
"Where is that accursed astrologer?" said the roar.
"There, what did I tell you? Oh! never mind the rest of the papers, go
at once. Your robe is full of rolls as it is."
"Yes," answered Kaku as he ran to the ladder, "but the question is, how
will he like what is in the rolls?"
"The gods be with you!" cried one of the girls after him, "you will need
them all."
"And if you get back alive, don't forget your promise about the
fortunes," said the other.
A minute later this searcher of the heavens, a tall, hook-nosed man, was
prostrating himself before Abi in his pavilion on the upper deck, so low
that his Syrian-shaped cap fell from his bald head.
"Why were you so long in coming?" asked Abi.
"Because your slaves could not find me, royal Son of the Sun. I was at
work in my cabin."
"Indeed, I thought I heard them giggling with you down there.


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