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Updated: July 9, 2025
If not, remember it shall be as I have said. Then turning to Umslopogaas, who had all the while been standing behind him and shepherding him as it were, 'Open the door for me, fellow, quick now. This was too much for the old chief's patience. For the last ten minutes his lips had been, figuratively speaking, positively watering over the Masai Lygonani, and this he could not stand.
Perhaps the most affecting thing of all was to witness Umslopogaas' distress at parting with Flossie, for whom the grim old warrior had conceived a strong affection. He used to say that she was as sweet to see as the only star on a dark night, and was never tired of loudly congratulating himself on having killed the Lygonani who had threatened to murder her.
When the Lygonani had gone, one of us thought of opening the basket he had brought as a proof that Flossie was really their prisoner.
'Ah, ah, he cried, in mockery, to the Elmoran, 'it is thou whom I talked with last night the Lygonani! the Herald! the capturer of little girls he who would kill a little girl! And thou didst hope to stand man to man and face to face with Umslopogaas, an Induna of the tribe of the Maquilisini, of the people of the Amazulu? Behold, thy prayer is granted!
'If nothing else turns up I shall go, I said decidedly. 'This is an important matter, said Mackenzie, addressing the Lygonani, 'and we must think it over. You shall have our answer at dawn.
She said also that she had made up her mind that if she saw no signs of succour by the time the first rays of the rising sun reached the kraal she would kill herself with the pistol, for the nurse had heard the Lygonani say that they were to be tortured to death as soon as the sun was up if one of the white men did not come in their place.
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