Does an enemy put you in danger of your life ?" "Yes, Messenger, and I myself am that enemy; for to-day I, who am no longer fit to live, must die by my own hand.

Nay, listen and you will say that I do well, for before I go I would tell you all.

Messenger, you are doomed, are you not?
Well, it was I who doomed you.

That fruit which you ate a while ago was poisoned, and by my hand, for I am a master of such arts.

From the beginning I hated you, as well I might, for had you not worsted me and torn power from my grasp, and placed the people and the king under the rule of another God?
Therefore, when all else failed, I determined to murder you, and I did the deed by means of that woman who not long ago was hung for the killing of her sister, though in truth she was innocent." And he told him what had passed between himself and the woman, and told him also of the plot which he had hatched to kill Nodwengo and the Christians, and to set Hafela on the throne.
"She was innocent," he went on, "but I am guilty.