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Also personal interference upon my part might turn the girl against me; while after Umgona and Nahoon have been wiped out by Maputa, she must accept my escort. Of course there is a risk, but in every walk of life the most cautious have to take risks at times." As it chanced, Philip Hadden was correct in his suspicions of his coadjutor, Maputa.
Well, wait, I will be even with you, Wizard; wait till you wake up in the cold morning to find your fence red with fire, and the slayers standing outside your gates to eat up you and yours with spears " At this juncture Nahoon, who till now had been listening in silence, intervened with effect. "Good," he said, "we will wait, but not in your company, Chief Maputa. Hamba!
"I did but fight as a soldier in his ranks." "Oh, yes, we know that, we know all that, Macumazahn; and Maputa was a clever monkey in his way, but we know also that you taught him how to jump. Well, he is dead, and nearly all the Amawombe are dead, and of my three regiments but a handful is left; the vultures have the rest of them.
Zikali appeared to grow angry. He stamped upon the ground with his big feet; he shook his braided grey locks and cried out: "Is my wisdom to be defeated in such a little matter? One of you tie a bandage over my eyes." Now a man it was Maputa, the messenger came out and did so, and I noted that he tied it well and tight.
I shall of course avoid Eshowe, and then keep along inside the Zulu frontier as far as the Maputa, which is its northern boundary, then we shall cross the Lebombo range into Swaziland. I don't know how far it would be by the way we should have to go, but as the crow flies it is about three hundred miles from here. I suppose, what with the detours and passes and so on, it will be four hundred.
If I succeed I may keep a piece of the iron when it gets cool, and if I burn my fingers it is my own fault, and I or my House must not come crying to Panda." "O Watcher-by-Night, you have speared the bull in the heart," replied Maputa, the messenger, nodding his shrewd old head. "Well, will you go up with Saduko?"
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?"
But he delayed too long; he failed to make use of the loophole of escape that Fortune showed him. Rhodes forgot three things, namely, that the Maputa is a tidal river, that several hours had elapsed since the gun had been heaved overboard, and that the tide was falling. One of the soldiers, in strolling about, noticed something unusual just beneath the surface of the water.
Then Maputa gave an order, and the Amawombe formed themselves into a triple line, thirteen hundred men in the first line, thirteen hundred men in the second line, and about a thousand in the third, behind whom were the carrier boys, three or four hundred of them.
Listen: if you grant my desire, not only will I fulfil yours upon your foes, but when the girl is delivered into my hands I will give you this rifle and a hundred rounds of cartridges." Maputa looked at the sporting Martini, and his eyes glistened. "It is good," he said; "it is very good.
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