XXVI
Bese the well, there was a ruin, an old stone wall. When I came back from my work the next evening, I caught sight of my little prince from a distance. He was sitting on top of the wall, legs dangling. And I heard him talking. "Don't you remember?" he was saying. "This isn't exactly the place!" Another voice must have answered him then, for he replied, "oh yes, it's the right day, but this isn't the place ..."
I continued walking toward the wall. I still could neither seen or hear anyone, yet the little prince answered again: "of course. You'll see where my tracks begin on the sand. Just wait for me there. I'll be there tonight."
I was twenty yards from the wall and still saw no one.
Then the little prince sa, after a silence, "your poison is good? You're sure it won't make me suffer long?"
I stopped short, my heart pounding, but I still dn't understand.
"Now go away," the little prince sa. "I want to get down from here!"
Then I looked down toward the foot of the wall, and gave a great start! There, coiled in front of the little prince, was one of those yellow snakes that can kill you in thirty seconds. As I dug into my pocket for my revolver, I stepped back, but at the noise I made, the snake flowed over the sand like a trickling fountain, and without even hurrying, slipped away between the stones with a faint metallic sound.
I reached the wall just in time to catch my little prince in my arms, his face white as snow. "What's going on here? You're talking to snakes now?"
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