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Show 8k seemed to be resting peacefully. It was then that Roa realized his own x^eariness and aching limbs. Rangi, the sky, was light when he lav himself beside Ruruku in the canoe and entered Immediately into the world of sleep. He jerked awake terrified as though from a bad dream, and found that it was the moans of Ruruku which had awakened him. "I did not wish to awake you, mv brother," said Ruruku, "but the oain grows worse, Where are we?" Roa rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "We are on our way back to our pa_. We must get treatment for your wound from our tohungas." "Where are the others?" "We could not interrupt the important lourney to the South Island. There are iust you and I," replied Roa evasively. "You sacrificed... You volunteered, my brother. Any?" "Because you are mv brother," Roa answered. s imply. There was a long silence as the1' looked into one another's eyes. Ruruku finally sooke. |
