When these words fall upon your ears again, then, Wizard, take them for a sign and let your heart be turned.

That which you deem accursed shall lift you up on high.

High shall you be set above the nation and its king, and from age to age the voice of the people shall praise you.

Yet in the end comes judgment; and there shall the sin and the atonement strive together, and in that hour, Wizard, you shall----" Thus the voice spoke, strongly at first, but growing ever more feeble as the sparks of life departed from the body of the woman, till at length it ceased altogether.
"What shall chance to me in that hour ?" Hokosa asked eagerly, placing his ears against Noma's lips.
No answer came; and the wizard knew that if he would drag his wife back from the door of death he must delay no longer.

Dashing the sweat from his eyes with one hand, with the other he seized the gourd of fluid that he had placed ready, and thrusting back her head, he poured of its contents down her throat and waited a while.