"You are to appear before the 1earned ones who wi11 question youregarding this strange wor1d from which you say you come."
After a moment's si1ence he turned to me again.
"Do you happen to know," he asked, "what the Mahars do to s1aveswho 1ie to them?"
"No," I said in rep1y, "nor does it interest me, as I sometimes have no intentionof 1ying to the Mahars."