Also she gave me a strange message from another who is dead, referring to a matter which I believed was known only to me and that other.

Yet Zikali is very clever and may have learned these things in some way unguessed by me, and what he has learned, others may have learned also.

King and Councillors, I do not think that what we saw was the spirit of Mameena.

I think it a woman not unlike to her who had been taught her lesson.

I have nothing more to say, and therefore I pray you not to ask me any further questions about Mameena of whose name I grow weary." At this point Zikali seemed to wake out of his indifference, or his torpor, for he looked up and said darkly-- "It is strange that the cleverest are always those who first fall into the trap.