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Updated: September 10, 2025
"I have hunted everywhere, and I cried about it because I haven't got another, and can't buy one here, and the needle hurts my finger." Menzi contemplated her gravely as though he were looking her through and through. "It is not lost, Little Flower. I see it; you have it now. Put your hand into the pocket of your dress. What do you find there?" "Nothing," said Tabitha.
They caught and blazed up fiercely, making an extraordinarily large flame considering the small amount of the kindling. The ebony-like sticks also began to blaze. Menzi grew excited. "My Spirit, come to me; my Spirit, come to me!" he cried. "O my Spirit, show this White Teacher Tombool that I am not a cheat!"
If you are wise I think that you will do well to walk your own road and suffer us to walk ours." "On the contrary," answered Thomas, "I intend that all the Sisa people shall walk one road, the road that leads to Heaven." "Is it so, Teacher?" Menzi replied with a mysterious smile.
The Bishop wondered how on earth the man knew that, since the matter had only just been decided by people talking in English, but answered that perhaps he might do so. "Great Priest," went on Menzi in an earnest voice, "I pray you to forbid the Teacher Tombool from doing anything of the sort." "Why, friend?" asked the Bishop.
He ran round and round the fire; he leapt into the air, then suddenly shouted: "My Spirit has entered into me; my Snake is in my breast!" All his excitement went; he grew quite calm, almost cataleptic. Holding his thin hands over the fire, slowly he let them fall, and as he did so the fierce flames died down. "It's going out," said Tabitha. Menzi smiled at her and lifted his hands again.
It was principally for this reason that he hated Kosa, his enemy's son, and all who clung to him; and partly because of that hatred and the fear that it engendered Kosa and his people had turned Christian, hoping to protect themselves thus against Menzi and his wizardries. Also for this dead woman's sake, Menzi had never married again.
After this the chorus was silent and Menzi himself took up the game, apparently asking questions of the sky and putting his ear to the ground for an answer. At length he announced: That the thimble was not among the rocks; That it was not lost at all. "But it is, it is, you silly old man," cried Tabitha excitedly.
Perhaps she was wrong; perhaps she transgressed and took too much upon her. Still, being by nature courageous, she ran the risk and did these things as afterwards Ivana testified to the followers of Menzi. "Thank you, Little Flower," said Menzi. "I do not suppose that this Christian magic will do me any good, but that you wished it is enough. It will be a rope to tie us together, Little Flower.
Menzi sighed as though in disappointment, and having helped himself to a little, re-stoppered the horn and thrust it back into the lobe of his ear. Next he said, speaking in a gentle and refined voice: "Greeting, Teacher, who, the messengers tell us, are called Tombool in your own language and in ours Inkunzi. A good name, for in truth you look like a bull.
At length Thomas grew exasperated and announced publicly that he credited nothing of this magic, and that Menzi was only a common cheat who threw dust into their eyes. If Menzi could perform marvels, let him show these marvels to him, Thomas, and to his wife, that they might judge of them for themselves. Apparently this challenge was repeated to the witch-doctor.
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