Therefore at sunset I will come for you.

Till then, farewell.

I have business that cannot wait." "Can I see the king ?" I cried.
"Not so, Macumazahn.

All to-day he makes sacrifice to the spirits of his ancestors and must not be approached," Goza called back as he departed.
Availing myself of the permission of the king to go where I would, a little later in the day I walked out of the town towards the Valley of Bones in order to ascertain for myself whether what Goza had told me was true.

So it proved, for about three hundred yards from the mouth of the valley, which at that distance looked like a black hole in the hills, I found soldiers stationed about ten paces apart in a great circle which ran right up the hillside and vanished over the crest.