Oh! the holy Tanofir is quite right.

If these things are going to happen let them happen, for we cannot change them by knowing of them beforehand.

Who wishes to know, Master, if his throat will be cut ?" "Or that he will be married," I suggested.
"Just so, Master, seeing that such prophecies end in becoming truths because we make them true, feeling that we must.

Thus, now I must marry yonder Karema if she will marry me for fear lest I should prove the holy Tanofir to be what he called me--a liar." I laughed and then asked Bes if he had taken note of what the seeress said of our flight south and our return thence with a great army of black men armed with bows.
"Yes, Master," he answered gravely, "and I think this army can be none other than that of the Ethiopians of whom by right I am the King.

This very night I send messengers to tell those who rule in my place that I still live and am changing my mind on the matter of marriage.