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Updated: June 22, 2025
Who am I that I should take vengeance upon one who has repented? Hokosa, freely do I forgive you all, even as in some few days I hope to be forgiven. Freely and fully from my heart do I forgive you, nor shall my lips tell one word of the sin that you have worked against me."
Hokosa, you have been famous in your day, but it seems that henceforth you who have led must follow." "The battle is not yet fought, King," answered Hokosa.
Now hundreds of huts were afire, and the flames spread swiftly, lighting up the country far and wide. In the glare of them, Hokosa could see that already a full two-thirds of the crowd of fugitives had passed the narrow arch; while Nodwengo and the soldiers were drawn up in companies upon the steep and rocky slope that led to it, protecting their retreat.
When she was recovered from her illness, Noma sat one night in her hut, and Hokosa sat there also watching her. The evening was warm, but a bright fire burned in the hut, and she crouched upon a stool by the fire, glancing continually over her shoulder. "Why do you bide by the fire, seeing that it is so hot, Noma?" he asked.
"Friend," answered Hokosa, "you should have been not a soldier but a pleader of causes. True it is then that the prince will only cause my life to fly, but whether that is a smaller sin I leave you to judge." "Keep him prisoner," said another, "till we learn how these matters end." "Nay," answered Hafela, "for then he will surely outwit us and escape.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness . . . and not to me only, but to all those who love His appearing." Then his head fell back, his dark eyes closed, and the Messenger was dead. Hokosa, the man who had murdered him, having lifted him up to show him to the people, amidst a sound of mighty weeping, took the body in his arms and bore it thence to make it ready for burial.
Round about the meteor stone which they called a god, each of them stirring a little gourd of medicine that was placed upon the ground before him, but uttering no word, were gathered Hokosa and his followers to the number of twenty. They were all of them arrayed in their snakeskin dresses and other wizard finery. Also each man held in his hand a wand fashioned from a human thigh-bone.
"There was a faint cry, a scuffle, a flashing of spears, and the man lay still before us. "'Now, followers of the new God, said Hokosa, 'raise him from the dead as your Master did! "In vain did we offer explanations. "'Peace! said Hokosa at length, 'your words weary us.
"It is this, Prince: First, the head of Hokosa, who has divorced me, when you have caught him." "That I promise readily. What more?" "Secondly, the place of your chief wife to-day; and a week hence, when I shall have made you king, the name and state of Queen of the People of Fire with all that hangs thereto." "You are ambitious, woman, and know well how to drive a bargain.
"Truly the skill of Hokosa is great, and well he knows how to set a snare; but I think that if by his counsel I should springe the bird, he will be too clever a man to keep upon the threshold of my throne. He who sets one snare may set twain, and he who sits by the threshold may desire to enter the house of kings wherein there is no space for two to dwell."
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