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"Perhaps thou art right, Mapela the Wise One," answered the king, kindly overlooking or perhaps not noticing the rather lame and impotent conclusion of the induna's high-flown speech. "But there is no reason why I should not at once show myself to my wives; and, by the bones of my royal father, I will!
Mapela, the Wise One, and I glanced enquiringly at each other, and methought that even in the semi-obscurity of that darkened interior I could detect the ghost of a twinkle of amusement in the old induna's eyes; for my own part, I remember that I was grinning from ear to ear as my imagination conjured up a picture of the scene which was enacting behind that curtain.
Of this I am sure, that when he has slain my son he will slay me, me also, and make himself chief in my place. I fear Indaba-zimbi. Ou!" "Black One," answered the induna, "wizards die as dogs die, and, once dead, dogs bark no more." "And once dead," said the chiefs, "wizards work no more spells," and he bent and whispered in the induna's ear, looking at the assegai in his hand as he whispered.
As for the king, he did not attempt to conceal his delight, even forgetting himself so far as to direct the induna's attention to its beauties; and for several minutes he continued to fondle the coat, seeming quite unable to allow so precious a thing to pass out of his own hands.
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