"I do not know, Alan, before all the gods, and my own as well, I do not know!" Hal appealed to his brother with an intensity of pain that startled even Alan, who was used to his moods by now. "By mine eyes, I have been no friend of sorcerers or charlatans. . . . Sometimes Jt seems to me that I can see clearly into the mysteries of all lives -except my own."

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