The Man the Martians Made

uncle from Kobé, to Kiomid

auspicious and doubtless the gods now design to

hting against his emperor-that his son should

has aided greatly in making him ador

was augustly well spent," agreed

hat his father was a rebel. Others know. I

N

we shall be

and murmu

s most excelle

the august conscience within informs me th

tly no doubt of it

ed to ea

he tapping of the pipes. Then they

here the little b

it will not be chargeable, now, in the heavens, to us, but to

eem him forth unto the way to the heavens by dyin

, "the gods could not be augustly d

e into thinking it he who died at Jokoji. In that case he would not only be redeemed to

om Kobé. And

gods are

ly think, that they desire to be

this was a trifle too much, "they will

a trifle the correc

hat now others know that our brother died on the rebel side at Jokoji. But do we not know that, in the course of

n should die fo

the name i

id Kiomidzu, lowering his voice a litt

ed and rubbed

god who can see the end from the beginning, and all between. And thus he spake: 'Rise and light the lamps and b

to pass, augustness?"

e names are the same. Arise and light t

with the light of the new lamps

first be accomplished-yea, satisfied full! And until he is redeemed by this unhappy onna-j

may not always be an onna-jin. And, also, any day the vengeance of the gods may be satisfied and they will permit him to redeem both his own and the spirit of his father. For I

our one blot wherefore we c

from between their hand

t were always under observation. And these old uncles had, more than others, taught him so. Yet now they were not observing the

Kiomidzu, "how fealty to the heave

tter when one is arri

od,'" quoted Kiomidzu, "'i

h, is willing, like us, to abide by its consequences from the

shima, his hard hands rasping with his

that his father had honorably fought and died for his emperor instead of against him, that his soul was probably in Buddha's bosom instead of wandering in the alien dark Meido, unredeemed

red the uncl

bé. "He wakes. If he should he

hibachi and caused a darkne

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