13/13 If on the other hand you do accept it, these shall be the stakes: that if you pass the trial unharmed, and the fire-doctors are swept away, your creed shall be my creed and the creed of the land; but if the fire-doctors prevail against you, then it shall be death or banishment to any who profess that creed. "I will meet Hokosa and his company on the Place of fire whenever he may appoint, but for the others I cannot say." "We will come with you," said Nodwengo and John, with one voice; "where you go, Messenger, we will surely follow.". |