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Nada the Lily

CHAPTER III
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I knew the voices; they were those of Noma's two wives, and one of them said she was coming in to watch by her husband's body.

Now I was in a trap indeed, for before I could do anything I saw the light go out of a hole in the hut, and knew by the sound of a fat woman puffing as she bent herself up that Noma's first wife was coming through it.
Presently she was in, and, squatting by the side of the corpse in such a fashion that I could not get to the door, she began to make lamentations and to call down curses on me.

Ah! she did not know that I was listening.

I too squatted by Noma's head, and grew quick-witted in my fear.

Now that the woman was there I was not so much afraid of the dead man, and I remembered, too, that he had been a great cheat; so I thought I would make him cheat for the last time.


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