He mistrusted every word that came from those lips on which his life hung.

"How can you know anything of men who do not count the cost ?" he asked in his gentlest tones.
"From hearsay--a little." "Well, I assure you they are like the others, subject to suffering, victims of spells.

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." "One of them, at least, speaks very strangely." She dismissed the subject after a short silence.