"Perhaps it is. It is a time mirage."

"What can that be, Joiwind?"

"You see, dear Maskull, the temple does not yet exist but it will do
so, because it must. What you and I are now doing in simplicity,
wise men will do hereafter in full knowledge."

"It is right for man to pray," said Maskull. "Good and evil in the
world don't originate from nothing. God and Devil must exist. And
we should pray to the one, and fight the other."

"Yes, we must fight Krag."

"What name did you say?" asked Maskull in amazement.

"Krag--the author of evil and misery--whom you call Devil."

He immediately concealed his thoughts. To prevent Joiwind from
learning his relationship to this being, he made his mind a blank.

"Why do you hide your mind from me?" she demanded, looking at him
strangely and changing colour.

"In this bright, pure, radiant world, evil seems so remote, one can
scarcely grasp its meaning." But he lied.

Joiwind continued gazing at him, straight out of her clean soul.
"The world is good and pure, but many men are corrupt. Panawe, my