Omari replied, "I come from the next world."

Then was that slave very astonished, and she went upstairs to her

mistress and said to her, "There, below in the verandah, is a man who

comes from the next world."

"Is that indeed so?" asked the mistress.

"It is indeed true, and if you doubt me ask him yourself, for he is

there below," said the slave.

So the mistress sent her slave down to call Omari up into the house, and

she came to him and said, "The mistress asks you to come upstairs."

Omari replied, "I cannot come upstairs; I am afraid, because it is a

stranger's house."

When the slave brought these words to her mistress, she herself came

down and called to Omari, "Do not be afraid; come upstairs; there is no

danger."

So Omari went upstairs, and that woman asked him, "Master, where do you

come from?"

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