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I knew nothing of the man's cattle, but my Spirit was with me and soon I saw them all, and told them to him one by one, their colour, their age everything. I told him, too, where they were, and how one of them had fallen into a stream and lay there on its back drowned, with its forefoot caught in a forked root. As my Ehlose told me so I told the headman.
Through the gloom the terrified bearers muttered to each other. "Throw it down and away!" said one. "Nay," answered another, "wisdom has come to Mami, her ehlose has spoken to her. Take it with you, lest it should remain to bear witness against us." "Remember what the Zulu swore," said a third, "that if harm came to this lord they would kill all, down to the rats.
That was my good Ehlose, my father, which without any doubt took the shape of a snake to save my life. When they had gone I crept off the other way, and Koos followed me.
Then I made haste to begin; I threw the bones. The headman sat on the ground before me and answered my questions. You know of these matters, my father how sometimes the witch-doctor has knowledge of where the lost things are, for our ears are long, and sometimes his Ehlose tells him, as but the other day it told me of your oxen. Well, in this case, my snake stood up.
May she also know the day of slavery, and the love that she wills not!" and she ceased, sobbing. Now I turned my head and spoke towards the hut, "Chief," I said, "your Ehlose is kind to you to-night, for he has given you a maid fair as the Lily of the Halakazi" here Nada glanced up wildly. "Come, then, and take the girl."
I prayed to my Ehlose, to the spirit that watches me ay, and I even dared to pray to the Umkulunkulu, the great soul of the world, who moves through the heavens and the earth unseen and unheard. And thus I prayed, that I might yet live to kill Chaka as he had killed those who were dear to me.
But another answered that this was not Galazi, for their eyes had seen him. Umslopogaas said that he knew nothing of Galazi, and little of wolves, and lo! while he spoke there came an impi of fifty men and entered the kraal. Umslopogaas looked at the leaders of the impi and knew them for captains of Chaka. At first he would have spoken to them, but his Ehlose bade him hold his peace.
For hadst thou done this last thing or left the first undone, I should have known that thy heart was wicked, and by now thou wouldst have wept indeed tears of blood, Mopo. It is well for thee, then, that thou hast read my riddle aright." Now I saw the depths of the pit that Chaka had dug for me, and blessed my Ehlose who had put into my heart those words which I should answer.
My mother wanted to catch me, for she was very angry, but I ran past her and gave the gourd to the boy. Then my mother ceased trying to interfere, only she beat the woman with her tongue all the while, saying that evil had come to our kraals from her husband, and she felt in her heart that more evil would come upon us from her son. Her Ehlose told her so. Ah! my father, her Ehlose told her true.
"Nay," answered another, "it is the Ehlose, the guardian ghost of the Amazulu that appears and dies." "Not so," broke in a third, "that light shows the Amaboona travelling from the south-west to be eaten up in the blackness of our impis." "Such a star runs ever before the death of king. It fell the night ere the Black One died," murmured a fourth as though he spoke to himself.
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