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Bid them come swiftly if they would see the doctoress Nombe before she dies." The man leapt off like a buck, and within a few minutes I saw Heda and Anscombe running towards us, half dressed, and went to meet them. "What is it?" she gasped. "I have only time to tell you this," I answered. "Nombe is dying. She gave her life to save you, how I will explain afterwards.
"Who sends a message by your lips for me, and what are the words of the message?" "My Lords the Spirits spoke the message by the mouth of the master Zikali. He sends it on to you by the lips of your servant, the doctoress Nombe." "Are you indeed a doctoress, being so young?" I asked, for somehow I wished to postpone the hearing of that message.
Then muttering, "It is the spirit of the witch, Sihamba, who prophesied my death her spirit that haunts me," he dropped to his knees, and, trembling like a leaf, turned to creep from the hut. Next second he was dead, dead without a sound, for Sihamba was a doctoress, and knew well where to thrust with the spear.
"I am Sihamba Ngenyanga, the doctoress, of whom you may have heard," she answered; and some of the people said, "We have heard of her; she is a great doctoress." "To what people do you belong, Sihamba?" asked the captain again.
At first Suzanne was inclined to turn her horse and fly, but she was a brave girl, and the perilous state of the little doctoress moved her to pity, for where Swart Piet was there she suspected cruelty and wicked motive. So she rode on, yes, straight up to Swart Piet himself. "In the name of Heaven what passes here, myn Heer?" she asked. "Ah! Miss Suzanne, is it you?" he answered.
Say, can we start to-morrow at the dawn?" Noie shook her head. "I do not think that they will let you go; they will keep you to be their great doctoress. You should not have come. I sent you word what did my life matter?" "Keep me," answered Rachel, stamping her foot. "They dare not; here at least I am the Inkosazana, and I will be obeyed." Noie made no answer; only she said: "Ishmael is here.
Mary Seacole was born at Kingston, Jamaica, her father being a Scotchman and her mother a native. The latter kept a boarding-house which was patronised chiefly by naval and military officers stationed at Kingston, but she was also widely known in the West Indies as a "doctoress."
"You need no magic to tell you that, doctoress," I remarked, "but where did you see my picture?" "In the dust far away," she replied. "And who showed it to you?" "One who knew you, O Macumazahn, in the years before I came out of the Darkness, one named Opener of Roads, and with him another who also knew you in those years, one who has gone down to the Darkness."
Suzanne slipped from the saddle and lay flat upon the ground, looking at the awful water they had passed, and by her lay Sihamba. Presently the little doctoress spoke.
And, Baas, the fire was full of spooks which walked around; yes, I saw some of them standing on your head and stomach, Baas, also on that of Umslopogaas, whilst others went and talked to the white Doctoress as quietly as though they had met her in the market-place and wanted to sell her eggs or butter.
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