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I believed that I was giving to her a potion which would cause her husband to hate her and no more." Here she looked round and her eyes met those of Hokosa. "Who told you that this was so?" asked one of the judges. "A witch-doctor," she answered, "from whom I bought the medicine in the old days, long ago, when Umsuka was king." Hokosa gasped. Why should this woman have spared him?
The army was not large, at least in the eyes of the People of Fire who, before the death of Umsuka and the break up of the nation, counted their warriors by tens of thousands. But after those events the most of the regiments had deserted to Hafela, leaving to Nodwengo not more than two-and-twenty thousand spears upon which he could rely.
At these words a gasp of astonishment went up from those who stood within hearing, expecting as they did to see them rewarded by instant death. But Umsuka only said: "'My King and yours'? Bold words, Messenger. Where then is this King to whom I, Umsuka, should bow the knee?" "He is everywhere in the heavens, on the earth, and below the earth." "If He is everywhere, then He is here.
Then Owen was very joyful, and that same night, with John for a witness, he baptised the prince, giving him the new name of Constantine, after the first Christian emperor. On the following day Nodwengo, in the presence of Owen, who on this point would suffer no concealment, announced to the king that he had become a Christian. Umsuka heard, and for a while sat silent.
Even as he spoke the pulses in the old man's forehead were seen to throb, and the veins in his neck to swell as they had swollen after he had swallowed the poison; then once more they shrank to their natural size. Umsuka stirred a hand, groaned, sat up, and spoke: "What has chanced to me?" he said. "I have descended into deep darkness, now once again I see light."
Your word, O King!" Umsuka thought for a while and answered: "This is my word, Hokosa: I will not drive the Messenger from the land, for he is a good man; he saved my life, and there is virtue in his teaching, towards which I myself incline. Yet it is just that he should be asked to prove his power, so that an end may be put to doubt and all of us may learn what god we are to worship."
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