What more ?" "Secondly, the place of your chief wife to-day; and a week hence, when I shall have made you king, the name and state of Queen of the People of Fire with all that hangs thereto." "You are ambitious, woman, and know well how to drive a bargain.

Well, if you can ask, I can give, for I have ever loved you, and your mind is great as your body is beautiful.

If through your help I should become King of the People of Fire, you shall be their Queen, I swear it by the spirits of my fathers and by my own head.

And now--your tidings." "These are they, Hafela.

Hokosa has turned Christian and betrayed the plot to Nodwengo; and the great gorge yonder but three hours march away is ambushed.