Instinctively they obeyed him.
"Is it Hafela whom I see yonder ?" he asked.
"Ah! it is I," answered the prince.

"What would you with me, wizard and traitor ?" "This only, Hafela: I would ask you what you seek here ?" "That which you promised me, Hokosa, the crown of my father and certain other things." "Then get you back, Hafela, for you shall never win them..

Have I prophesied falsely to you at any time?
Not so--neither do I prophesy falsely now.

Get you back whence you came, and your wolves with you, else shall you bide here for ever." "Do you dare to call down evil on me, Wizard ?" shouted the prince furiously.

"Your wife is mine, and now I take your life also," and with all his strength he hurled at him the great spear he held.
It hissed past Hokosa's head, touching his ear, but he never flinched from the steel.
"A poor cast, Prince," he said laughing; "but so it must have been, for I am guarded by that which you cannot see.