CHAPTER X.
THE WITCH-HUNT On reaching our hut I motioned to Infadoos to enter with us.
"Now, Infadoos," I said, "we would speak with thee." "Let my lords say on." "It seems to us, Infadoos, that Twala the king is a cruel man." "It is so, my lords.

Alas! the land cries out because of his cruelties.
To-night ye shall see.

It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.

No man's life is safe.

If the king covets a man's cattle, or a man's wife, or if he fears a man that he should excite a rebellion against him, then Gagool, whom ye saw, or some of the witch-finding women whom she has taught, will smell that man out as a wizard, and he will be killed.