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"No, no, come with me I will find a way and be my wife," and he put her arm about her waist, and strove to draw her to him. Without any violence of movement, and with the most perfect dignity, the girl disengaged herself from his embrace. "You have honoured me, and I thank you, Inkoos," she said quietly, "but you do not understand.
They raised their hands in a gesture of salutation as a Zulu chief thrusts up a long arm and shouts "Inkoos!" to one whom he honours. Some, however, made the sweeping Oriental gesture of the right hand, palm upward, and almost touching the ground a sign of obedience and infinite respect. It had all been well arranged.
"Then you must do them quickly," said the messenger with a grim smile as he rose and prepared to go, "for know that the Inkosazana is not more than half a day's march behind you, accompanied by the white Inkoos Dario." "What is this Dario like?" asked Ishmael. "Oh! he is young and very handsome, with hair and beard of gold, and eyes that are such as those of the Inkosazana herself.
"No, Inkoos, why should I tell Nahoon your secrets? I have said 'nay' to you, not 'yea, therefore he has no right to know," and she stooped to lift the gourd of water. Hadden considered the situation rapidly, for his repulse only made him the more determined to succeed. Of a sudden under the emergency he conceived a scheme, or rather its rough outline.
"To my intense relief, with a low growl she straightened herself, turned, and bounded further up the kloof. "'Come on, Inkoos, said Tom, 'let's get back to the waggon. "'All right, Tom, I answered. 'I will when I have killed those three other lions, for by this time I was bent on shooting them as I never remember being bent on anything before or since.
'From the west, Inkoos, he said, 'and before that from the south. It is a sore road for old bones. I went into the store to fetch some meal, and when I came out he had shuffled close to the door. He had kept his eyes on the ground, but now he looked up at me, and I thought he had very bright eyes for such an old wreck.
'The nights are cold, Inkoos, he wailed, 'and my folk are scattered, and I have no kraal. The aasvogels follow me, and I can hear the blesbok. 'What about the blesbok? I asked with a start. 'The blesbok are changing ground, he said, and looked me straight in the face. 'And where are the hunters? I asked.
"Only this, Inkosazana; the white Inkoos from the Buffalo River has arrived, and is without." "Good," said Rachel, "let him wait there." Then she went on with her judgment. Yes, she went on, although her eyes were blind, and the blood beating in her ears sounded like the roll of drums.
"No, Inkoos, the Amatongo the ghosts that welcome her who has just become of their number." "Ghosts," said Hadden roughly, for he was angry at his own tremors, "I should like to see those ghosts. Do you think that I have never heard a troop of monkeys in the bush before, mother? Come, Nahoon, let us be going while there is light to climb the cliff. Farewell."
But I tell you, Nanea, and you, White Man, as I told Umgona just now, that I think no good will come of this flight, and if we are caught or betrayed, we shall be killed every one of us." "Caught we can scarcely be," broke in Nanea anxiously, "for who could betray us, except the Inkoos here "
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