The kings who slept there were accompanied to their resting-places by numbers of their wives and servants, who had been slain in solemn sacrifice that they might attend their Lord whithersoever he should wander.
"What is that you desire and would do ?" asked Noma, in a hushed voice.
Bold as she was, the place and the occasion awed her.
"I desire wisdom from the dead!" he answered.

"Have I not already told you, and can I not win it with your help ?" "What dead, husband ?" "Umsuka the king.

Ah! I served him living, and at the last he drove me away from his side.

Now he shall serve me, and out of the nowhere I will call him back to mine." "Will not this symbol defeat you ?" and Noma pointed at the cross hewn in the granite.
At her words a sudden gust of rage seemed to shake the wizard.

His still eyes flashed, his lips turned livid, and with them he spat upon the cross.
"It has no power," he said.