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As it chanced fortune favoured him, for when she was near him a snake glided across the path in front of the girl's feet, causing her to spring backwards in alarm and overset the gourd of water. He came forward, and picked it up. "Wait here," he said laughing; "I will bring it to you full." "Nay, Inkoos," she remonstrated, "that is a woman's work."
"Yes, yes, Lady, an Englishman, like you," and he grinned at her. "Have you any message for the Inkoos Hishmel?" "Yes. Say to the Inkoos Ishmael or Lion-who-dwells-in-the-wilderness, hates the Dutch and wears zebra-skin trousers, that my father and my mother thank him very much for his present, and hope that his health is good. Go. That is all."
May you live long, and may good fortune sleep in your hut to the end. May you shoot straight, also, with your magic tool, and thereby win the lives of your company out of the hand of the king. Farewell, Inkoos," and since he could not lift his bound hands in salutation, he bowed to me, as did the others.
They raised their hands in a gesture of salutation as a Zulu chief thrusts up a long arm and shouts "Inkoos!" to one whom he honours. Some, however, made the sweeping Oriental gesture of the right hand, palm upward, and almost touching the ground a sign of obedience and infinite respect. It had all been well arranged.
"Ay," he answered, "betrothed to the king." "No, betrothed to Nahoon." "But it is the king who will take you within a week; is it not so? And would you not rather that I should take you than the king?" "It seems to be so, Inkoos, and I would rather go with you than with the king, but most of all I desire to marry Nahoon.
Indaba-zimbi alone did not mourn. He said that it was best that the Inkoos should die, for what was life worth when one lay like a log? moreover, that it would have been well for all if he had died sooner. On the following day we buried him in the little graveyard near the waterfall. It was a sad business, and Stella cried very much, in spite of all I could do to comfort her.
"Come out, you dog," he said, searching the dense foliage with his eyes, and the man appeared, saluting him humbly. "We received your message and we have come, Inkoos. We are but just arrived. What has chanced here that the town is so still?" "The Zulus have been and gone. They have killed the white Teacher and his wife, though I thought to save them look at my wound. Also the people are fled."
"'She must have gone somewhere to die, Pharaoh, I said in Zulu. "'Yes, Inkoos, he answered, 'she has certainly gone away. "Hardly were the words out of his mouth, when I heard a roar, and starting round saw the lioness emerge from the very centre of a bush, in which she had been curled up, just behind Pharaoh.
Hadden shrugged his shoulders, not thinking the matter worth further argument, and at that moment the Bee woke up shivering, drew the red snake from her head-dress and coiling it about her throat wrapped herself again in the greasy kaross. "Are you satisfied with my wisdom, Inkoos?" she asked of Hadden.
"Pharaoh was sleeping on the other side of the cart, and, looking beneath it, I saw him raise his head and listen. "'Lion, Inkoos, he whispered, 'lion! "Jim-Jim also jumped up, and by the faint light I could see that he was in a very great fright indeed.
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