his heart has changed towards you. Now once again, my dear young
lady, let me beg you not to think any more about him!"

But O-Tsuyu, weeping, made answer:--

"Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself
from thinking about him! You know that you can get a hundred ryo
to have the o-fuda taken off.... Only once more, I pray, dear
Yone!--only once more bring me face to face with Hagiwara Sama,
--I beseech you!" And hiding her face with her sleeve, she thus
continued to plead.

"Oh! why will you ask me to do these things?" responded O-Yone.
"You know very well that I have no money. But since you will
persist in this whim of yours, in spite of all that I can say, I
suppose that I must try to find the money somehow, and to bring
it here to-morrow night...." Then, turning to the faithless
Tomozo, she said:--"Tomozo, I must tell you that Hagiwara Sama
now wears upon his body a mamoni called by the name of Kai-On-
Nyorai, and that so long as he wears it we cannot approach him.
So you will have to get that mamori away from him, by some means
or other, as well as to remove the o-fuda."

Tomozo feebly made answer:--

"That also I can do, if you will promise to bring me the hundred
ryo."

"Well, mistress," said O-Yone, "you will wait,--will you not,--
until to-morrow night?"