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Wow! these wizards shall wake warm; the signal should be soon." A fabulous animal, reported by the Zulus to carry off human beings in a hole in its back. Then arose the sound of a great voice crying, "Awake, ye sleepers, the foe is at your gates!" Galazi rushed through the town crying aloud, and behind him rose a stir of men.
"That will not mend matters," said Galazi. Now on that day Umslopogaas took Nada the Lily to wife, and for awhile there was peace and quiet. But this evil thing came upon Umslopogaas, that, from the day when he wedded Nada, he hated even to look upon Zinita, and not at her alone, but on all his other wives also.
Was there ever such a club?" And Galazi held it up before the eyes of Umslopogaas. In truth, my father, that was a club, for I, Mopo, saw it in after days. It was great and knotty, black as iron that had been smoked in the fire, and shod with metal that was worn smooth with smiting. "I looked at it," went on Galazi, "and I tell you, stranger, a great desire came into my heart to possess it.
And afterwards, as they sat at night by the fire in the cave they spoke together. "How are you named?" asked Umslopogaas of the other. "I am named Galazi the Wolf," he answered, "and I am of Zulu blood ay, of the blood of Chaka the king; for the father of Senzangacona, the father of Chaka, was my great-grandfather." "Whence came you, Galazi?"
Now, at this time nearly a hundred men of the People of the Axe had been killed and of the Slayers some fifty men, for, having been awakened by the crying of Galazi, the soldiers of the axe fought bravely, though none saw where his brother stood, and none knew whither their chief had fled except those ten who went with the brethren.
Perhaps it is the Lily, and if so that is unlucky for us, for I do not know what tale we shall tell to Dingaan of the matter." So the captains went with Umslopogaas and Galazi, and came to the spot where the girl had been laid, and by her the man of the People of the Axe. "All is as the Wolf, my brother, has told," said Umslopogaas, waving the torch in his hand over the two who lay dead.
How that company fared at the hands of Umslopogaas and of Galazi the Wolf, and at the fangs of the people black and grey, I have told you, my father. None of them ever came back again.
"It seems that none are left for us to kill, Galazi," said Umslopogaas, laughing aloud. "Ah, that was a cunning fight! Ho! you sons of the Unconquered, who run so fast, stay your feet. I give you peace; you shall live to sweep my huts and to plough my fields with the other women of my kraal.
Now they came to the end of it, and the foe was near this end of the gorge is narrow, my father, like the neck of a gourd then Galazi stopped and spoke: "Halt! ye People of the Axe," he said, "and let us talk awhile with these who follow till we get our breath again. But you, my brother, pass the river with the Lily in your hand.
Yet, as it chanced, he was wrong; for though Macropha indeed was killed, it was another maid who lay in blood beside her; for the people whither I had sent Macropha and Nada were tributary to the Halakazi tribe, and that chief of the Halakazi who sat in the place of Galazi the Wolf had quarrelled with them, and fallen on them by night and eaten them up.
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