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A few had tried to scale the high walls of the rocky range that hid the sun.
Their whitened bones lay at the foot of the cliffs.
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Out of the darkness crept a man.
The nails of his hands were torn.
His feet were covered with rags, red with the blood of long marches.
He stumbled to the door of the nearest hut and knocked.
Then he fainted. By the light of a frightened candle, he was carried to a cot.
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The neighbors stood around and shook their heads. They had always known that this was to be the end.
Defeat and surrender awaited those who dared to stroll away from the foot of the mountains.
And in one corner of the village the Old Men shook their heads and whispered burning words.
They did not mean to be cruel, but the Law was the Law. Bitterly this man had sinned against the wishes of Those Who Knew.
As soon as his wounds were healed he must be brought to trial.
They meant to be lenient.
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The Law, however, was the Law; and the Law must be obeyed.
The Men Who Knew would see to that.
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He was still weak from hunger and thirst and the Elders bade him sit down.
He refused.
They ordered him to be silent.
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Upon the Old Man he turned his back and his eyes sought those who but a short time before had been his comrades.
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And his body they threw at the foot of the cliffs, that it might lie there as a warning to all who questioned the wisdom of the ancestors.
Then it happened a short time latter that there was a great drought0. The little Brook of Knowledge ran dry. The cattle died of thirst. The harvest perished in the fields, and there was hunger in the Valley of Ignorance.
They were pushed aside. They complained of their lot. They bewailed the ingratitude of their children, but when the last wagon pulled out of the village, they stopped the driver and forced him to take them along.
The careful pioneer had blazed a clear trail through the woods and amidst the endless wildness of rock.
“His bones lie rotting at the foot of the cliffs, but the Old Men sit in our carts and chant their ancient days ……
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“We are sorry that it happened, but of course, if we could have known at the time ……”
Then they unharnessed their horses and their oxen and they drove their cows and their goats into the pastures and they built themselves houses and laid out their fields and they lived happily for a long time afterwards.
A few years later, an attempt was made to bury the brave pioneer in the fine new edifice , which had been erected as a home for the Wise Old Men.
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