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And till I return I will leave these in pledge with you; but these and no other I must give to the Messenger, for he has already seen them and might discover the difference; also I have promised so to do." "As you will," said Hokosa. "If you are with the fruit within an hour, the medicine will be ready for you, a medicine that shall not fail." The woman slipped away secretly.
"Why have you summoned me from my rest, Hokosa?" muttered the voice from the lips of the huddled corpse. "Because I would learn the future, Spirit of the king," answered the wizard boldly, but saluting as he spoke. "You are dead, and to your sight all the Gates are opened.
The matter, then, resolved itself to this: which of these two rules of life was the right rule? Which of them should a man follow to satisfy his conscience and to secure his abiding welfare? Apart from the motives that swayed him, as a mere matter of ethics, this problem interested Hokosa not a little, and he went homewards determined to solve it if he might.
This woman saw Hokosa also and looked at him sideways, as though she would like to stop and speak to him, but feared to do so. "Good morrow to you, friend," he said. "How goes it with your husband and your house?" Now Hokosa knew well that this woman's husband had taken a dislike to her and driven her from his home, filling her place with one younger and more attractive.
I am free from you, O dark and accursed man; but herein lies my triumph and revenge you are not free from me. In obedience to that white fool whom you have murdered, you have loosed me; but you I will not loose and could not if I would. Listen now, Hokosa: you love me, do you not? next to this new creed of yours, I am most of all to you.
"I know your magic," he groaned; "use it for me, not against me! What is there that I can offer you, who have everything except the throne, whereon you cannot sit, seeing that you are not of the blood-royal?" "Think," said Hokosa. For a while the prince thought, till presently his form straightened itself, and with a quick movement he lifted up his head.
"I greet you, Wife," answered Hokosa. "Say out your say, for none are present save us three, and from the Messenger here I have no secrets." "What, Husband, none? Do you ever talk to him of certain fruit that you ripened in a garden yonder?" "From the Messenger I have no secrets," repeated Hokosa in a heavy voice.
"Then, that will be the signal for my death, for what king can forgive one who has plotted such treachery against him?" said Hokosa. "Fear not," answered Owen, "I will soften his heart. Go you into the church and pray, for there you shall be less tempted; but before you go, swear to me that you will work no evil on yourself."
"This, O King," replied John, "that I am a Christian, and to me that snake is nothing but a noxious reptile. It bit my wife, and had it not been for the medicine of the Messenger, she would have perished of the poison. Therefore I killed it before it could harm others." "It is a fair answer," said the king. "Hokosa, I think that this man should go free."
"Tell me know what shall I do?" said Hokosa in a voice of despair, "seeing that it is I and no other who have brought this death upon you." "Fret not, my brother," answered Owen, "for this and other things you did in the days of your blindness, and it was permitted that you should do them to an end.
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