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"As her father well, of course, Macumazahn, as her father I am sorry, because it will mean talk, will it not, as the Masapo business did? Still, there is this to be said for Mameena," he added, with a brightening face, "she always runs away up the tree, not down.
"Macumazahn, your spirit has written on this stone that you should beware of Mameena, since she is more dangerous than any buffalo. If you are wise you will not go out hunting with Umbezi, although it is true that hunt will not cost you your life. There, away, Stone, and take your writings with you!" and as he spoke he jerked his arm and I heard something whiz past my face.
"Did I not tell you, Macumazahn, that when two bucks met they would fight?" whispered Mameena suavely into my ear. "Yes, Mameena, you did or rather I told you. But you did not tell me what the doe would do." "The doe, Macumazahn, will crouch in her form and see what happens as is the fashion of does," and again she laughed softly. "Why not do your own hunting, Masapo?" asked Saduko.
The poisonous drug she had taken worked well and swiftly. Such was the end of Mameena, Child of Storm. A deep silence followed, a silence of awe and wonderment, till suddenly it was broken by a sound of dreadful laughter. It came from the lips of Zikali the Ancient, Zikali, the "Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born."
"No, you vile White Man," she sobbed. "I shan't die, but how about my beauty?" "It will be greater than ever," I answered; "no one else will have an ear with such a curve in it. But, talking of beauty, where is Mameena?" "I don't know where she is," she replied with fury, "but I very well know where she would be if I had my way.
"For you, perhaps, Saduko, but not for me who am poor and want cows. Also," he added, glancing at him shrewdly, "are you so sure that Mameena loves you though you be such a fine man? Now, I should have thought that whatever her eyes may say, her heart loves no one but herself, and that in the end she will follow her heart and not her eyes.
She will be sure to be up by then; or, better still, the day after?" "In which hut is Mameena?" asked Saduko sternly, while I, smelling a rat, began to chuckle to myself. "I really do not know, Saduko," replied Umbezi. "Sometimes she sleeps in one, sometimes in another, and sometimes she goes several hours' journey away to her aunt's kraal for a change.
In short," she added, with a burst of truth, "I am the plaything, Nandie is the great lady, and that place suits me ill." "If you love Saduko, you should not mind, Mameena." "Love," she said bitterly. "Piff! What is love? But I have asked you that question once before." "Why are you here, Mameena?" I inquired, leaving it unanswered.
"Nay, a wise one, Macumazahn, for since then I have seen Mameena and know why I chose that path." "Ah!" I said. "Mameena I forgot her. Well, after all, perhaps there is some truth in your tale of roads. When I have seen Mameena I will tell you what I think." "When you have seen Mameena, Macumazahn, you will say that the choice was very wise.
But those words were not spoken, since Panda only said: "Let us try the case of this woman, Mameena."
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