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"Do you know," said he, looking straight down into her eyes as she came up to him, "those words of Stevenson's though they always fit you seem particularly applicable to you to-night? "Steel-true and blade-straight The great artificer Made my mate."
He stands there, the splendid chief of the Bamangwato "steel-true, blade-straight." He is the Black Prince of Africa who has indeed won his spurs against the enemies of his people. And if you were to ask him the secret of the power by which he has done these things, Khama the silent, who is not used to boasting, would no doubt lead you at dawn to the Kgotla before his huts.
He lived for a while in Switzerland, in the south of France, in the south of England, in the Adirondack Mountains, and in California. In 1880 he married in California, Mrs. Fanny Osbourne, of whom he wrote: "Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate."
When Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson passed from this earth the news of her death carried a pang of grief to many a heart in far distant lands. One who knew her well, her husband's cousin, Graham Balfour, writes his estimate of her character in these words: "Although I had met Fanny Stevenson twice in England, I first came to know her on my arrival at Vailima in August, 1892, when within a single day we established a firm friendship that only grew closer until her death. The three stanzas by Louis so completely expressed her that it seems useless for a man to add anything or to refine upon it: 'Steel-true and blade-straight .
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