Ou mean,' they replied, 'do you prophesy that the prince will have a fever?' "'He is going to have it.' "'You see, you are a sorcerer,' said the jailer, 'you make predictions.' "And then he shut him in prison, to go away and to relate his conversation to them all. "During this time, they called in a healer who stated that the wounds of the great nobleman were not mortal in themselves, but that the fever which had declared itself could become dangerous. "He was cured after long months. "During this time the poor man languished in his prison, from whence he was only taken to appear before the judges. "Accused of sorcery and of using black magic, he explained very simply that he had foreseen the danger, because in raising his eyes he had noticed that the part of the ground over which the herald had passed was sinking, and that he had drawn the following conclusions: "The earth seemed to have only a medium thickness. "Under the feet of the herald he had seen it crumble and fall in. "He had deduced from this that a weight five times as heavy added to that of the palanquin, would not fa
