The humbled monarch lifted his hand--he who for many years had madeobeisance to none--and salute

　　The humbled monarch lifted his hand--he who for many years had madeobeisance to none--and saluted the symbol, saying:--"Messenger, I thank Him and I worship Him, though I know Him not. Saynow, how did His magic work upon me to make me sick to death and torecover me?""By the hand of man, King, and by the virtues that lie hid in Nature,cheap designer handbags.
　　Did you not drink of a cup, and were not many things mixed in thedraught? Was it not but now in your mind to speak words that shouldbring down the head of pride and evil, and lift up the head of truthand goodness?""O White Man, how know you these things?" gasped the king.
　　"I know them, it is enough. Say, who was it that stirred the bowl,King, and who gave you to drink?"Now Umsuka staggered to his feet, and cried aloud in a voice that wasthick with rage:--"By my head and the heads of my fathers I smell the plot! My son,fake uggs online store, thePrince Hafela, has learned my counsel, and would have slain me beforeI said words that should set him beneath the feet of Nodwengo. Seizehim, captains, and let him be brought before me for judgment!"Men looked this way and that to carry out the command of the king, butHafela was gone. Already he was upon the hillside, running as a manhas rarely run before--his face set towards that fastness in themountains where he could find refuge among his mother's tribesmen andthe regiments which he commanded. Of late they had been sent thitherby the king that they might be far from the Great Place when theirprince was disinherited.
　　"He is fled," said one; "I saw him go.""Pursue him and bring him back, dead or alive!" thundered the king. "Ahundred head of cattle to the man who lays hand upon him before hereaches the /impi/ of the North, for they will fight for him!""Stay!" broke in Owen,fake montblanc pens. "Once before this day I prayed of you, King, toshow mercy, and you refused it. Will you refuse me a second time?
　　Leave him his life who has lost all else.""That he may rebel against me? Well, White Man, I owe you much,fake uggs for sale, andfor this time your wisdom shall be my guide, though my heart speaksagainst such gentleness. Hearken, councillors and people, this is mydecree: that Hafela, my son, who would have murdered me, be deposedfrom his place as heir to my throne, and that Nodwengo, his brother,be set in that place, to rule the People of Fire after me when I die.""It is good, it is just!" said the council. "Let the king's word bedone.""Hearken again," said Umsuka. "Let this white man, who is namedMessenger, be placed in the House of Guests and treated with allhonour; let oxen be given him from the royal herds and corn from thegranaries, and girls of noble blood for wives if he wills them.
　　Hokosa, into your hand I deliver him, and, great though you are, knowthis, that if but a hair of his head is harmed, with your goods andyour life you shall answer for it, you and all your house.""Let the king's word be done," said the councillors again.
　　"Heralds," went on Umsuka, "proclaim that the feast of the first-fruits is ended, and my command is that every regiment should seek itsquarters, taking with it a double gift of cattle from the king, whohas been saved alive by the magic of this white man. And now,Messenger, farewell, for my head grows weary. To-morrow I will speakwith you."Then the king was led away into the royal house, and save those whowere quartered in it, the regiments passed one by one through thegates of the kraal, singing their war-songs as they went. Darknessfell upon the Great Place, and through it parties of men might be seendragging thence the corpses of those who had fallen in the fight withsticks, or been put to death thereafter by order of the king.