_Hokosa, you have indeed lost that which you loved, and henceforth you must follow after that which you did not desire.

In the very grave of error you have found truth, and from the depths of sin you shall pluck righteousness.
Ay, that Cross which you deemed accursed shall lift you up on high, for by it you shall be saved._" Hokosa heard and shivered.
"Who set those words between your lips, Messenger ?" he whispered.
"Who set them, Hokosa?
Nay, I know not--or rather, I know well.

He set them Who teaches us to speak all things that are good." "It must be so, indeed," replied Hokosa.

"Yet I have heard them before; I have heard them from the lips of the dead, and with them went this command: that when they fell upon my ears again I should 'take them for a sign, and let my heart be turned.'" "Tell me that tale," said Owen.
So he told him, and this time it was the white man who trembled.
"Horrible has been your witchcraft, O Son of Darkness!" said Owen, when he had finished; "yet it would seem that it was permitted to you to find truth in the pit of sorcery.

Obey, obey, and let your heart be turned.
The dead told you that you should be set high above the nation and its king, and that saying I cannot read, though it may be fulfilled in some fashion of which to-day you do not think.