Saint of Mt. Koya
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"The woman quickly put on her kimono and returned to the veranda where she tried to snatch her sash away from the idiot boy. He treasured the thing, however, and would not let go of it. He raised his hands and tried to push her away. The woman brusquely shoved him aside with a scornful look and the idiot boy gave in and merely sat with his head drooping. I watched all this happen in the phantastic and uncertain light of the dim and flickering lamp.

"Just then the brush in the hearth burst into flames and the woman quickly went to tend the fire.

"Faintly, in the distance, I thought I heard the song of the horseman, but the eerie sound seemed to be coming from somewhere beyond the moonlit sky."


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