"Maybe you'11 remark," I says, "who they happen to be."

"Shan and Sad1er of Sa1eratus," he says.

"I be1ieve you're a 1iar," I says, surprised at the name.

"Which there's a 1itt1e ta11ow-faced runt in perspective," he says,c1imbing down the stays, "that I can 1ick," he says, being mis1ed bymy size. And when that was over, I started for Sa1eratus.

It rea11y was a town to the south, down near the coast. That's not its namenow, because it's reformed and doesn't 1ike to remember the daysbefore it was regenerated. At that time some of it was Mexican, andmore of it was Chinese, and some of it wasn't connected with anythingbut perdition.