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I translated what Hans had said in Dutch to Umslopogaas, who remarked indifferently, "This little yellow man is well named Light-in-Darkness; at least the plan can be tried if it fails there is always time to die."

Thence, too, I managed to dispatch three messengers, half-bred border men, lean fellows and swift of foot, forward to the king of the Mazitu, as Hans had suggested that I should do, advising him that his old friends, Macumazana, Watcher-by-Night, and the yellow man who was named Light-in-Darkness and Lord-of-the-Fire, were about to visit him again.

"Which at least is not possible if she has lived two thousand years. Then naturally she would prefer to wear a veil," I said boldly, seeking to avoid the argument into which I saw she wished to drag me. "Ah!" she answered, "the little yellow man who is named Light-in-Darkness put that thought into your heart, I think.

Hans, who had suddenly found something that interested him extremely out at sea, perhaps because he did not wish to witness my grief, turned round slowly and answered: "Mavovo named me Light-in-Darkness, and by that name the Kafirs know me now, Baas, though some of them call me Lord-of-the-Fire." "Then Mavovo named you well, for indeed, Hans, you shine like a light in the darkness of my heart.

"Descend, White Lords, and come with your companions, the black Warrior and the yellow man who is named Light-in-Darkness. She-who-commands desires to see you at once before you eat and sleep, and must not be kept waiting. Fear not for the others, they will be cared for till you return." I descended from the litter and told the others what the old fellow had said.

These things the old woman who married my uncle told me, as she told them to Light-in-Darkness, also I have heard them from others, and what she did not tell me, that the White Kendah are great breeders of the beasts called camels which they sell to the Arabs of the north.

"Lords Macumazana and Igeza, and yellow man who is named Light-in-Darkness," he said, "we, the head priests of the Child, speaking on behalf of the White Kendah people with full authority so to do, have taken counsel together and of the wisdom of the Child as to the demands which you make of us.

Through the water he plunged with great bounds and reaching the shore, greeted me literally with rapture. "O Macumazana," he said, "little did I hope that ever again I should look upon your face. Welcome to you, a thousand welcomes, and to you too, Light-in-Darkness, Lord-of-the-Fire, Cunning-one whose wit saved us in the battle of the Gate.

Farewell, and farewell also to yonder Bearer of the Axe that shall drink the blood of Rezu, also to the little yellow man who is rightly named Light-in-Darkness, as you shall learn ere all is done." Then before I could speak she turned and glided away, swiftly surrounded by her guards, leaving me astonished and very uncomfortable. The old chamberlain, Billali, conducted us back to our camp.

Light-in-Darkness, although if I had ten thousand pounds I could never pay you back since what you have given me is more than all the gold in the world and all the land and all the cattle yet with honour and with love I will try to pay you," and I held out my hand to him.