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"Who am I that I should know the ways of witches who, like the winds, are able to go and come as they will? Can a woman run up a wall of rock like a lizard, Macumazahn?" "Doubtless " and I began some explanation which I have forgotten, when a passing cloud, or I know not what, cut off the light so that both the pinnacle and she who stood on it became invisible.
"My Lords the Spirits, speaking through Zikali as one who makes music speak through a pipe of reeds, say " "Never mind what the spirits say. Tell me what Zikali says," I interrupted. "So be it, Macumazahn. These are the words of Zikali: 'O Watcher-by-Night, the time draws on when the Thing-who-should-never-have-been-born will be as though he never had been born, whereat he rejoices.
"Now, Macumazahn," she said, with a little smile that both mocked and dazzled, "the poor black girl has you, the wise, experienced white man, in her net, and I will show you that she can be generous. Do you think that I do not read your heart, that I do not know that you believe I am dragging you down to shame and ruin?
Over it he crouched, so closely that his great head seemed to be almost in the flame at which he stared with unblinking eyes as he had done at the sun, circumstances which added to his terrifying appearance and made me think of a certain region and its inhabitants. "Why do you come here, Macumazahn?" he asked after studying me for a while through that window of fire.
"True, O Zikali," I said. "That is so far as I am concerned." But Saduko answered nothing. Moreover, O Macumazana, be happy, for I seek no fee who, having made such fortune as I need long ago, before your father was born across the Black Water, Macumazahn, no longer work for a reward unless it be from the hand of one of the House of Senzangakona and therefore, as you may guess, work but seldom."
"Would you have run away without saying good-bye to me, Macumazahn?" she whispered to me as I came abreast of her. "That is unkind of you, and I should have wept much. However, it was not so fated." "I was going to ride up and bid farewell when the oxen were inspanned," I answered. "But who is that man?" "You will find out presently, Macumazahn. Look, my father is beckoning to us."
In the end, just as I was about to trek seawards, an old friend, Maputa, turned up at my wagons that same man who had brought me the message from Panda before we started to attack Bangu. "Greeting, Macumazahn," he said. "What of the Amakoba? I see they did not kill you." "No," I answered, handing him some snuff, "they did not quite kill me, for here I am. What is your pleasure with me?"
Then, if he knew that you were trying to do this, I think that Saduko might leave his sticks uncut for a while." "I will try. I will indeed, Macumazahn. I will try very hard. It is true Masapo is an obstinate pig; still, if he knows that his own life is at stake, he might give way. Moreover, when she learns that Saduko has grown rich and great, Mameena might help me.
"Mashune was still living, but a single glance at him told me that his hour had come. The buffalo's horn had driven a great hole in his right lung, and inflicted other injuries. "I knelt down beside him in the uttermost distress, and took his hand. "'Is he dead, Macumazahn? he whispered. 'My eyes are blind; I cannot see. "'Yes, he is dead. "'Did the black devil hurt thee, Macumazahn?
With these eyes have I seen it once, and twice also. Ah, Macumazahn, we shall see this fine place of houses burning yet, and hear the battle cries come ringing up the street. After all, I have not wandered for nothing. Can this folk fight, think ye? Just then Sir Henry joined us, and Good arrived, too, from another direction, looking very pale and hollow-eyed.
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