"0 White Heart and yellow body, I look into your heart and it is yellowas water, and the water of innocence shall save it. Fool, why do youstrike that blow? Let him be who is loved of the tiger, and whose loveis as the love of a tiger. Ah! what face is that in the battle? Followit, follow it, 0 swift of foot; but follow warily, for the tongue thathas lied will never plead for mercy, and the arm that can betray isstrong in war. White Heart, what is death? In death life lives, andamong the dead you shall find the life you lost, for there awaits youshe whom kings and waters cannot harm."

As the Bee spoke, by degrees her voice sank lower and lower till itwas almost inaudible. Then it ceased altogether and she seemed to passfrom trance to sleep. Hadden, who had been listening to her with anamused and cynical smile, now laughed aloud.