11/42 You can't know such a thing." "I am not guessing at all, Dagaeoga, and I do know. Your position as absolute ruler was brief. It expired between the first and second hour, and now you have an adviser who may become a director." "Then proceed with your advice and direction. How do you know there is shelter only two or three hundred yards farther on ?" "I look ahead, and I see a narrow path leading up among the rocks. Such paths are countless in the wilderness, and many of them are untrodden, but the one before my eyes has sustained footsteps many times." "Come down to earth, Tayoga, and tell me what you see." "I see on the rocks on either side of this path long, coarse hairs. |