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Updated: June 24, 2025
When all had done, the Prince Hafela came forward, lifted his spear, and cried: "A boon, King!" "What is it?" asked his father, eyeing him curiously. "A small matter, King," he replied. "A while ago I named a certain woman, Noma, the ward of Hokosa the wizard, and she was sealed to me to fill the place of my first wife, the queen that is to be.
La prima inscrizion ch'agli occhi occorre, Con lungo honor Lucrezia Borgia noma, La cui bellezza ed onest
Then I felt about for my skin rug, and as I did so my hand touched something cold. I started, and felt again. It was a man's face the face of a dead man, of Noma, whom I had killed and who had been laid in my hut to await burial. Oh! then I was frightened, for Noma dead and in the dark was worse than Noma alive.
"You have fought well, Wizard, but to-morrow all your magic shall avail you nothing, for it will be your last day upon this earth." "Ay, Noma," he answered, "and yours also."
"Bid scouts go out and creep into yonder gully," answered Noma, "and you will see whether or no I have spoken falsely. For the rest, I am in your hands, and if I lie you can take my life in payment." "If I march upon the Great Place, it must be at midnight when none see me go," said Hafela, "and what will you do then, Noma, who are too weary to travel again so soon?"
"Ah, yes," says Señor Noma, who has caught the remark, "you see we haf something worth your notice in this dark corner of America. If you stay here longer you will find we haf many things you would like."
Señor Noma meets me at the foot of the dining-room stairs. "I haf sent for a jar of chili-peppers for Mrs. Steele. Will you say your friend I raicommend chili-peppers, and I advice you put a little cayenne in the bif-tea. It makes vairy seeck without." "Thank you, Señor Noma," I say; "Wah-Ching will bring up the peppers and I will tell Mrs. Steele what you say." I glance back at the Peruvian.
Noma, what shall we do with this man who was your husband? Tell us, for you should know best how to deal with him." "Let me think," she answered, and she looked first at the ground beneath her, next around her, then upwards toward the skies.
And again, "Say to the Prince Hafela, that though my face towards him is like a storm, yet behind the clouds the sun shines ever." At length there came a day when Noma, his wife, was brought to bed. Hokosa, her husband, tended her alone, and when the child was born he groaned aloud and would not suffer her to look upon its face. Yet, lifting herself, she saw.
Then he will answer that if this be so you can come beneath the walls of his camp, and your herald shall refuse, saying that you fear treachery. But he must add that if Nodwengo will bid Hokosa to advance alone to the flat rock, you will bid me, Noma, whom none can fear, to do likewise, and that there we can talk in sight of both armies, and returning thence, make report to you and to Nodwengo.
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