Said the Voice: "To thee, O Hadji, I come from the Limitless Realm of
the Past that begins this moment and reaches back even beyond the day of
all beginnings. I speak from the Deeps Above. I tell of the Great That
Was. I also am a Voice of Life, and mine it is to tell you yet more of
The Tale of The Uncrowned King."

And this is the part of the Tale that was told by the Voice of the
Night.

Now it happened, as things sometime so happen, that Really-Is lingered
over long, saying good-bye to his friends in the City Sometime in the
Land of Yettocome; and that when he had lingered long with his friends
he stayed yet longer with the beautiful princess, Imagination.

So it was that, while the prince was promising many promises and
receiving in turn promises as many, his brother, Seemsto-Be, mounted and
was well started on his journey before the heir to the throne of
Allthetime was in the saddle. With the last good-bye spoken to his royal
friends, the last promise promised to the fair princess, and the last
farewell waved to the charming people, Really-Is urged his horse fast
and faster, thinking thus to overtake his brother. But very soon
Really-Is found that, fast as he rode his good horse Reality, Seemsto-Be
on Appearance rode faster. Greater and greater grew the distance between
the two princes--farther and farther ahead rode Seemsto-Be; until at
last, when the distance between them was such that he could, no longer
see his brother, Really-Is, the rightful heir to the throne of
Allthetime, understood that Seemsto-Be was riding to win the Crown.

"For you must not forget, O Hadji," said the sad Voice of the Night,
"that no one in Daybyday could tell the twins, Really-Is and Seemsto-Be,