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Updated: October 27, 2025
Now on the morrow at daybreak, leaving his wolves, Galazi came down from the Ghost Mountain and passed through the gates of the kraal. In front of my hut he saw Nada the Lily and saluted her, for each remembered the other. Then he walked on to the place of assembly and spoke to me. "So the Star of Death has risen on the People of the Axe, Mopo," he said.
Galazi stood there awhile, and the moonlight fell upon him, and Umslopogaas saw that his face grew wild and beastlike, that his eyes shone, and his teeth grinned beneath his curling lips. He lifted up his head and howled out upon the night. Thrice Galazi lifted his head and thrice he howled loudly, and yet more loud.
The fear of Galazi the Wolf was that they should find this pass held, for though they had harmed none in the kraals as they went, and taken only enough cattle to feed themselves, yet he knew well that messengers had sped by day and night to warn the people of the Halakazi. But they found no man in the pass, and on the other side of it they rested, for the night was far spent.
Galazi also wondered that Umslopogaas should fly from a single man. Hither and thither fled Umslopogaas, and always his eyes were on the earth. Of a sudden, Galazi, who watched, saw him sweep forward like a bird and stoop to the ground. Then he wheeled round, and lo! there was an axe in his hand.
With one accord the headmen answered: "Indeed you did well, Slaughterer," for the glamour of Nada was upon them and they would cherish her as others had cherished her. Only Galazi the Wolf shook his head. But he said nothing, for words do not avail against fate.
"Swift, brother, bind on the wolf's hide, take shield! Swift, I say for the Slayers of the king are at your gates!" Now Nada sprang up also, and they did his bidding like people in a dream; and, while they found their garments and a shield, Galazi took beer and drank it, and got his breath again. They stood without the hut.
How seems she now, Galazi? "'She is white and wrinkled and very aged, I answered. 'They call her mad, yet at her bidding I came to seek thee, Dead One, bearing the Watcher that was thy father's and shall be mine. "'It shall be thine, Galazi, said the voice, 'for thou alone hast dared the ghosts to give me sleep and burial.
But the soldier, being made with the lust of fight, shouted that maid or man she should die, and slew her. Thereon, he Galazi in his wrath ran up and smote the man with the Watcher and killed him also, and he prayed that he had done no wrong. "You have done well, my brother," said Umslopogaas. "Come now, some of you, and let us look at this dead girl.
Also I buried Galazi the Wolf in the cave, and set the Watcher in his hand, and there they both sleep who are friends at last, the Lily and the Wolf together. Ah! when shall there be such another man and such another maid? At length on the third day Umslopogaas spoke, asking for Nada. I pointed to the earth, and he remembered and understood.
Now at length we were in the cave, and I sent away those who were with us, for we wished to be alone with Dingaan at the last. He sat down on the floor of the cave, and I told him that beneath the earth on which he sat lay the bones of that Nada whom he had murdered and the bones of Galazi the Wolf. On the third day before the dawn we came again and looked upon him.
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