Also she will give to the Messenger certain fruits, after eating of which he will be taken sick and in due time die, of just such a disease as that which carries off the woman's rival.

Now, if any think that he is poisoned, which I trust none will, whom will they suppose to have poisoned him, though indeed they can never prove the crime ?" "The plan is clever," said Noma with admiration, "but in it I see a flaw.

The woman will say that she had the drug from you, or, at the least, will babble of her visit to you." "Not so," answered Hokosa, "for on this matter the greatest talker in the world would keep silence.

Firstly, she, being a Christian, dare not own that she has visited a witch-doctor.

Secondly, the fruit she brought in payment was stolen, therefore she will say nothing of it.