It tells me further that the first who should ask me more, will be one of those who must die.

Now do you ask?
Or you?
Or you?
Or you?
Ask if you will." Strange to say no one accepted the invitation.

Never have I seen a body of men so indifferent to the future, at least to every appearance.

One and all they seemed to come to the conclusion that so far as they were concerned it might be left to look after itself.
"My Snake told me something else," went on Mavovo.

"It is that if among this company there is any jackal of a man who, thinking that he might be one of the six to die, dreams to avoid his fate by deserting, it will be of no use.