If it be a spirit from heaven it can take no harm.

Nor can you take harm who only do that which you must." "Woman or spirit, I will not shoot, King," I answered.
"Is it so?
What! do you defy me, White Man?
Do so if you will, but learn that then your bones shall whiten here in this Vale of Bones.

Yes, you shall be the first of the English to go below," and turning, he whispered something to two of the Councillors.
Now I saw that I must either obey or die.

For a moment my mind grew confused in face of this awful alternative.

I did not believe that I saw a spirit.