Silently the people looked at each other.
“He was right after all,” they said. “He was right, and the Old Men were wrong....
“He spoke the truth, and the Old Men lied....
“His bones lie rotting at the foot of the cliffs, but the Old Men sit in our carts and chant their ancient lays....
“He saved us, and we slew him....
“We are sorry that it happened, but of course, if we could have known at the time....”
Then they unharnessed their horses and their oxen and they drove their cows and their goats into the pastures and they built themselves houses and laid out their fields and they lived happily for a long time afterwards.
A few years later an attempt was made to bury the brave pioneer in the fine new edifice which had been erected as a home for the Wise Old Men.