"
"He knows that, if he knows anything, I'm sure ... that's why I think
we're all right!"
And she came up closer into my arms with a sigh of content.
* * * * *
I had been asleep....
The sudden madness and saturnalia of love into which I had these few
weeks been plunged tapped, it seemed, my subliminal consciousness, maybe
my memory of former incarnations....
I never had such a vision in my life....
I was fully aware of my surroundings, yet through them shone another, a
far reality that belonged to me, too.
I described it to Hildreth, as she lay, thrilled, beside me.
A cave ... high up on the hill-crest ... our cave, that we had imagined,
now come true....
I was a huge chap, with a girdle of leaves about my waist ... strange,
tropic leaves ... there was black hair all over my body ... there was a
little, red fire back in the cave's obscurity....
I had come in, casting a dead fawn down from my shoulder....
Hildreth came forward ... it was plainly she ... though with fine red
hair like down on her legs....
"But your name is Naa ... my name is Kaa, the hunter, the slayer of
good, red meat."
"Johnnie, do you really see that,--_all_ that!"
She was enthralled like a child, as I described the landscape that lay,
spread immense, beneath us ... and the wide ocean, great and blue, that
tossed to the east.
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