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The Wizard

CHAPTER IV
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Ay, Prince, and I can see your mind also.

You would be rid of your father: he has lived too long.

Moreover his love turns to Nodwengo, the good and gentle; and perhaps--who can say ?--it is even in his thought, when all his regiments are about him two days hence, to declare that you, Prince, are deposed, and that your brother, Nodwengo, shall be king in your stead.

Now, Nodwengo you cannot kill; he is too well loved and too well guarded.

If he died suddenly, his dead lips would call out 'Murder!' in the ears of all men; and, Prince, all eyes would turn to you, who alone could profit by his end.


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