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Then Masilo implored her to give the child back to him; but she would not listen, and only answered: 'If I were to give her back you would only obey the laws of your country and take her to your father, the ogre, and she would be eaten.
I have settled it in my mind to give my step-daughter Zinita in marriage to Masilo, but the marriage gift is not yet agreed on. I demand a hundred head of cattle from Masilo, for the maid is fair and straight, a proper maid, and, moreover, my daughter, though not of my blood. But Masilo offers fifty head only, therefore I ask you to settle it."
Now, while Masilo told this tale I had seen two things first, that a little piece of stick was thrust through the straw of the fence, and, secondly, that the regiment of the Bees was swarming on the slope opposite to the kraal in obedience to the summons I had sent them in the name of Umhlangana.
Chaka bade him cease from praising and tell his business. Then the man sat up and told all that tale which you have heard, my father, of how a young man, great and strong, came to the place of the People of the Axe and conquered Jikiza, the holder of the axe, and become chief of that people, and of how he had taken the cattle of Masilo and driven him away.
Thus he spoke very fast, as a man gabbles a prayer to a spirit in whom he has little faith, then turned once more to talk of the cattle of Masilo and of the maid Zinita.
If thou standest not before me, then some shall come to seek thee and the boy with an axe also." So Masilo turned and fled swiftly to do the bidding of the king, and Chaka spoke no more of that matter.
He would stand in my place, would he? the place that I and my fathers have held for four generations by virtue of the axe. I tell you all, that presently I will stand upon his head, and then we will settle the matter of Masilo." "Babble not so fast, man," quoth Umslopogaas, "or if you must babble, speak those words which you would say ere you bid the sun farewell."
'Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me to give him back his daughter. 'If I let her go he must pay me a thousand head of cattle in exchange, replied the old woman. And Thakané carried her answer back to Masilo.
Zinita watched him go, and she was glad of it, and because the Slaughterer had named her for his wife. "I am well rid of Masilo," she said aloud, in the hearing of Galazi, "but I had been better pleased to see him dead before me." "This woman has a fierce heart," thought Galazi, "and she will bring no good to Umslopogaas, my brother."
I looked round; the princes stood like men amazed; the girl had fled; the chief Umxamama was dead at the hands of dead Masilo; and the old chief Inguazonca, who had killed Masilo, stood by, hurt and wondering; there were no others in the kraal. "Awake, ye kings," I cried to the brothers, "the impi is at the gates!
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