9/14 To-morrow you must die, and may forgiveness await you elsewhere." "I ask nothing else," said the woman. "It is best that I should die." Then they led her away. As she passed Hokosa she turned and looked him full in the eyes, till he dropped his head abashed. Next morning she was executed, and he learned that her last words were: "Let it come to the ears of him who sold me the poison, telling me that it was but a harmless drug, that as I hope to be forgiven, so I forgive him, believing that my silence may win for him time for repentance, before he follows on the road I tread." Now, when Hokosa heard these words he shut himself up in his house for three days, giving out that he was sick. |