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"The Inkosikase waited for the wolf by the water's edge," he said simply, "and I smote him behind the ear. So her spirit is at rest." "Let me see to your wounds, chief." "Wow!
They whipped round at the mocking voice, and saw the Inkosikase standing a few feet off, having come upon them with great quietness. "Where is the young chief?" asked Mr. Hume at once. "Be not afraid, great one. He sits over the 'familiar' of his father, learning wisdom and strong medicine.
"Ye," he said, addressing them, "will stay here with the women; and if it chance that the enemy prevail, take the women and the flocks to the foot of the rocks above, where the white men were. O Inkosikase! Muata's mother came forward, armed with spear, and behind her came other women carrying bows and arrows. "These men, O mother, will stay by the kraal.
Dingarn was attentive, and said they were good words, and that he would hear more of them, but in the meantime Gardiner must go back to Natal and see that his people kept the treaty. It was a good deal more than he could do. A Kaffir inkosikase, or female chieftain, who, with two servants and three children, was fleeing into Natal at the time of his return, was sent back, with all her companions.
Hume stepped out on to the platform. "Who calls?" "It is I, the Inkosikase." She was standing at the very parapet where he himself had leant when he saw the light borne by Dick on the spot where he now stood. She stood up boldly on the canon side of the great cavity, about fifty yards away. "Your life was forfeit, Ngonyama, but I spared you I spared you." "I hear."
The chief laughed. "It was the wish of the Inkosikase; but now she is gone, it is in my heart to take the wives to myself. But there are others, Ngonyama." "No, chief," said the Hunter, quickly. "How do you live in the rains, chief? Is there much discomfort?" "Wow! it is the red pig's life mud all about; and there is much sickness, for the people crowd together in the huts."
"On the brink of the pool he fell, and where he fell there, too, was the Inkosikase." It seemed as if he were addressing the remark to Venning. "I heard her call 'Ngonyama' in the night," whispered the boy. "Wow!" "So the young chief told me after you had gone," said the Hunter. Venning nodded his head. The chief accepted the explanation.
Hume waited for an explanation, and the chief gave it in his calm way, without a smile. "You wanted two men, great one. I am the second." "But we go far, while the moon is many times at the full." "You go towards the setting sun, Ngonyama, and there also goes the son of the Inkosikase." "But your people?" "I have said my say with them.
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