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Updated: June 24, 2025
"I trust that you will come again," said Owen to Hokosa as they left the chapel. "Yes, indeed, Messenger," answered the wizard; "I will come every day, and if you permit it, I will attend your private teachings also, for I accept nothing without examination, and I greatly desire to study this new doctrine of yours, root and flower and fruit." On the morrow Noma started upon her journey.
"Hafela," she said, "I am Noma who was the wife of Hokosa, and for whole nights and days I have journeyed as no woman ever journeyed before, to tell you of the treachery of Hokosa and to save you from your doom." "What treachery and what doom?" asked the prince. "Before I answer you that question, Hafela, you must pay me the price of my news." "Let me hear the price, Noma."
Steele is joined by Señor Noma, and the Baron urges me to come a little further away from the light "ve can see dthe yelly fishes viel besser." I move away unsuspectingly out of the shine of the ship's lanterns, and the Baron, folding his arms on the railing beside me, begins quite low to recite a Spanish sonnet, liquid, musical, impassioned.
Let us go to our stateroom; the wind is on our side to-day." We read and sleep in seclusion until evening. At dinner, refreshed with my long rest, I feel unusually light-hearted and gay. I laugh and chat with Señor Noma and the rough old Captain, till Mrs. Steele leans over and gives me a look of surprise.
Noma answered thus with passion, but her eyes shone as she spoke: for those who have once tasted the cup of magic are ever drawn to drink of it again, even when they fear the draught. It was midnight, and Hokosa with his wife stood in the burying-ground of the kings of the Amasuka.
Now, if any think that he is poisoned, which I trust none will, whom will they suppose to have poisoned him, though indeed they can never prove the crime?" "The plan is clever," said Noma with admiration, "but in it I see a flaw. The woman will say that she had the drug from you, or, at the least, will babble of her visit to you."
They were cruel men rendered more cruel by their superstitious fear of one whom they believed to be uncanny; one to whom they attributed inhuman powers which he was exercising to their destruction, but still this doom seemed dreadful to them. Noma read their minds and went on passionately: "You deem me unmerciful, but you do not know what I have suffered at this wizard's hands.
Although he was a Christian, to his surprise Nodwengo showed that he was also a strong ruler, and that there was little chance of the sceptre slipping from his hand none indeed while the white teacher was there to guide him. "What will you do now, Hokosa?" asked Noma his wife upon a certain day. "Will you turn to Hafela after all?" "No," answered Hokosa; "I will consult my ancient lore. Listen.
"Then cause some other to give it and let him bear the blame," suggested Noma languidly. Hokosa made no answer, but walking to the gate of the kraal, which was open, he leaned against it lost in thought.
As it chanced, a rich man of a neighbouring tribe had lost some cattle, and came with gifts to Noma praying him to smell them out. Noma tried and could not find them; his vision failed him. Then the headman grew angry and demanded back his gifts; but Noma would not give up that which he once had held, and hot words passed.
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