Now I ask you, my people, what reward shall be given to them ?" Then a great roar went up from all the multitude, "Let them die, O king!" "Ay!" he answered.

"Let them die as liars should!" Now the Isanusis, men and women, screamed aloud in fear, and cried for mercy, tearing themselves with their nails, for least of all things did they desire to taste of their own medicine of death.

But the king only laughed the more.
"Hearken ye!" he said, pointing to the crowd of us who had been smelt out.

"Ye were doomed to death by these false prophets.

Now glut yourselves upon them.