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She went off during an afternoon siesta and did not reappear for a day and a half, by which time there was pandemonium among the pilgrims -- she always knew how to whip up an audience's feelings, Saeed conceded; then she sauntered back up to them across the dust--clouded landscape, and this time her silver hair was forgive us." It was the first time they had used the name of the longago saint to describe the girl who was leading them with an absolutism that had begun to frighten them as much as it impressed. After her speech the Sarpanch and Mirza Saeed were left alone streaked with gold, and her eyebrows, too, were golden. She summoned the villagers to her and told them that the archangel was displeased that the people of Titlipur had been filled up with doubts just because of the ascent of a martyr to Paradise. She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, "so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a salt--water bath, and then it's back to your deserted potato fields on which no rain will ever fall again." The villagers were appalled. "No, it can't be," they pleaded. "Bibiji,
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