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The man still said nothing, and the boy sensed that he was going to have to make a decision. In his pouch, he had his jacket—he certainly wa...

crickets, and like expectations; like lizards and four-leaf clovers. "That's right," said the old man, able to read the boy...

The wind began to pick up. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter, because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern...

The boy told him that he had already promised to give one-tenth of his treasure to the Gypsy. "Gypsies are experts at getting people to...

The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one corner of the plaza. "When he was a child, that man wanted to travel,...

But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked up a stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. Something br...

book, without seeming to want to return it at all. The boy noticed that the man's clothing was strange. He looked like an Arab, which wa...