“Master, if you will be satisfied with other fruits of this same sort, I know where I can get them for you.”
“When will you get them?”
“Now, within an hour. And till I return I will leave these in pledge with you; but these and no other I must give to the Messenger, for he has already seen them and might discover the difference; also I have promised so to do.”
“As you will,” said Hokosa. “If you are with the fruit within an hour, the medicine will be ready for you, a medicine that shall not fail.”
CHAPTER XIV
THE EATING OF THE FRUIT
The woman slipped away secretly. When she had gone Hokosa bade his wife bring the basket of fruit into the hut.
“It is best that the butcher should kill the ox himself,” she answered meaningly.
He carried in the basket and set it on the floor.