9/36 What are we to do with you ?' 'You have one-half of the Amulet, I the other,' said Rekh-mara. 'All that is now needed is the pin to join them.' 'Don't you think it,' said Robert. 'The half you've got is the same half as the one we've got.' 'But the same thing cannot be in the same place and the same time, and yet be not one, but twain,' said the Priest. 'See, here is my half.' He laid it on the Marcella counterpane. 'Where is yours ?' Jane watching the eyes of the others, unfastened the string of the Amulet and laid it on the bed, but too far off for the Priest to seize it, even if he had been so dishonourable. |