[Finished by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFinished CHAPTER XV 23/23
For then, as you may have guessed, it is the evil-doer who himself tells the doctor of his crime, though he may not know that he is telling it.
Yet there is another stone that I alone can throw, another plan that I alone can practise, and that not always.
But of this I would not make use since it is terrible and might frighten you or even send you back to your huts raving so that your wives, yes, and the very dogs fled, from you." He stopped and for the first time did something to his fire, for I saw his hands going backwards and forwards, as though he warmed them at the flames. At length an awed voice, I think it was that of Dabulamanzi, asked-- "What is this plan, Inyanga? Let us hear that we may judge." "The plan of calling one from the dead and hearkening to the voice of the dead.
Is it your desire that I should draw water from this fount of wisdom, O King and Councillors ?".
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