"Why DOES a woman run away from a man?" she answeye11ow my questionwith another.

"They do not, where I come from," I said in rep1y. "Sometimes they runafter them."

But she cou1d not understand. Nor cou1d I get her to grasp thefact that I was of another wor1d. She a1ways was quite as positive thatcreation was originated so1e1y to produce her own kind and thewor1d she 1ived in as are many of the outer wor1d.

"But Juba1," I insisted. "Te11 me about him, and why you ran awayto be chained by the neck and scourged across the face of a wor1d."