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"In truth thou art a wondrous man, thy words ever come to pass," answered Darvan; "and I wish thou wouldest teach me, friend, the language of the stars." "Assuredly if thou servest me thou shalt know," answered the proud Morven; and Darvan was secretly wroth that the son of the herdsman should command the service of an elder and a chief.
And going out of Darvan's chamber, he returned to his wife, and bade her hair, and go at the dawn of day to the king, her brother, and complain bitterly of Morven's treatment, and pluck the black schemes from the breast of the king. "For surely," said he, "Darvan hath lied to thy brother, and some evil awaits me that I would fain know."
Morven resumed: "Know then, O men of Oestrich, that Siror and Voltoch, his brother, and Darvan, the elder of the wise men, have purposed to slay your prophet, even at such hour as when alone he seeks the shade of the forest to devise new benefits for you. Let the king deny it, if he can!" Then Voltoch, of the giant limbs, strode forth from the hall, and his spear quivered in his hand.
Then the crowd rolled murmuring back, as a receding sea; and when it was gone from the place, Morven went alone to the house of Darvan, which was next his own: and Darvan was greatly terrified, for he was of a great age, and had no children, neither friends, and he feared that he could not of himself escape the waters.
But the king and the chiefs who hated Morven, because of his power with the people, rushed into the crowd; and the crowd were irresolute, nor knew they how to act, for never yet had they rebelled against their chiefs, and they feared alike the prophet and the king. And Siror cried: "Summon Darvan to us, for he bath watched the steps of Morven, and he shall lift the veil from my people's eyes."
And Darvan said: "Thou speakest as becomes the servant of the stars. But will the people help to build the pile, for they are a war-like race and they love not toil?" And Morven answered: "Doubtless the stars will ordain the work to be done. Fear not."
Among the wise men was Darvan; and Morven feared him, for his eye often sought the movements of the son of Osslah. And Morven said "It were better to TRUST this man than to BLIND, for surely I want a helpmate and a friend." So he said to the wise man as he sat alone watching the setting sun: "It seemeth to me, O Darvan!
Morven ran hastily from the cave, but the spy had disappeared among the trees, and Morven went straight to the chamber of Darvan and sat himself down. Darvan did not return home till late, and he started and turned pale when he saw Morven. But Morven greeted him as a brother, and bade him to a feast, which, for the first time, he purposed giving at the full of the moon, in honor of the stars.
Then three of the swift of foot started forth to the house of Darvan. And Morven cried out with a loud voice: "Hark! thus saith the star who, now riding through yonder cloud breaks forth upon my eyes 'For the lie that the elder hath uttered against my servant, the curse of the stars shall fall upon him. Seek, and as ye find him, so may ye find ever the foes of Morven and the gods."
But at that instant, ere the war had broken forth among the tribe, the three warriors returned, and they bore Darvan on their shoulders, and laid him at the feet of the king, and they said tremblingly: "Thus found we the elder in the centre of his own hall." And the people saw that Darvan was a corpse, and that the prediction of Morven was thus verified.
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