Thank Him, therefore, and worship Him, for He alone is Master of the Earth," and he held the crucifix before his eyes.
The humbled monarch lifted his hand--he who for many years had made obeisance to none--and saluted the symbol, saying:-- "Messenger, I thank Him and I worship Him, though I know Him not.

Say now, how did His magic work upon me to make me sick to death and to recover me ?" "By the hand of man, King, and by the virtues that lie hid in Nature.
Did you not drink of a cup, and were not many things mixed in the draught?
Was it not but now in your mind to speak words that should bring down the head of pride and evil, and lift up the head of truth and goodness ?" "O White Man, how know you these things ?" gasped the king.
"I know them, it is enough.

Say, who was it that stirred the bowl, King, and who gave you to drink ?" Now Umsuka staggered to his feet, and cried aloud in a voice that was thick with rage:-- "By my head and the heads of my fathers I smell the plot! My son, the Prince Hafela, has learned my counsel, and would have slain me before I said words that should set him beneath the feet of Nodwengo.

Seize him, captains, and let him be brought before me for judgment!" Men looked this way and that to carry out the command of the king, but Hafela was gone.

Already he was upon the hillside, running as a man has rarely run before--his face set towards that fastness in the mountains where he could find refuge among his mother's tribesmen and the regiments which he commanded.