"Did you then think that I believed it to be you, though it is true that she who went before, or my spirit that was in her, fell into error for an hour, and thought that fool-uncle of yours was _the Man_.

When she found her mistake she let him go, and bade the god go with him that it might bring back the appointed Man, as it has done; yes, that Little Bonsa, who knew him of old, might search him out from among all the millions of men, born or unborn, and bring him back to me.

Therefore also she chose a young black dog who would live for many years, and bade the god to take him with her, and told him of the wealth of our people that it might be a bait upon the hook.

Do you see, Vernoon, that yellow dirt was the bait, that I--I am the hook?
Well, you have felt it before, so it should not gall you overmuch." Now Alan was more frightened than he had been since he set foot in Asiki-land, for of a sudden this woman became terrible to him.

He felt that she knew things which were hidden from him.