It is beyond me and may be true or may be false.

Still, I shall be grateful to you if you will use your power to discover, if you can, whether Dogeetah is coming here, and if so, when.

Now, do as it may please you; I have spoken." "And I have heard, Macumazana, my father.

To-night I will call upon my Snake.

Whether it will answer or what it will answer, I cannot say." Well, he did call upon his Snake with due and portentous ceremony and, according to Stephen, who was present, which I declined to be, that mystic reptile declared that Dogeetah, alias Brother John, would arrive in Beza Town precisely at sunset on the third day from that night.