Then he returned quickly, for the sights and odours of the place were not to be borne.
Outside the circle of the branches he halted, and removed the handkerchief from his mouth.
"Be of good cheer," he said to John, "and if it should chance that I am called away before my words come true, yet remember my words.

I tell you that this Tree of Death shall become the Tree of Life for all the children of your people.

Look! there above you is its sign and promise." John lifted his eyes, following the line of Owen's outstretched hand, and saw this.

High up upon the tree, and standing clear of all the other branches, was one straight, dead limb, and from this dead limb two arms projected at right angles, also dead and snapped off short.

Had a carpenter fashioned a cross of wood and set it there, its proportions could not have been more proper and exact.