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Updated: June 7, 2025
"There is your water, Nanea, shall I carry it for you to the kraal?" "Nay, Inkoos, I thank you, but give it to me, you are weary with its weight." "Stay awhile, and I will accompany you. Ah! Nanea, I am still weak, and had it not been for you I think that I should be dead." "It was Nahoon who saved you not I, Inkoos." "Nahoon saved my body, but you, Nanea, you alone can save my heart."
Nahoon did not answer, but stared steadily at the trunks of two trees a few paces in front of them and to their right. "Look," he whispered. Hadden did so, and at length made out the outline of something brown that was crouched behind the trees. "He is dead," he exclaimed. "No," answered Nahoon, "he has come back on his own path and is waiting for us. He knows that we are following his spoor.
There, among the waggons where the spears were busiest, there standing by his horse and firing rapidly was Black Heart, he who had given Nanea his betrothed to death. Three soldiers stood between them, one of them Nahoon stabbed, and two he brushed aside; then he rushed straight at Hadden.
"Nahoon, fare you well, though presently perhaps we shall be together again. It was I who tempted you from your duty. For my sake you forgot your honour, and I am repaid. Farewell, my husband, it is better to die with you than to enter the house of the king's women," and Nanea stepped on to the platform. Here, holding to a bough of one of the thorn trees, she turned and addressed Hadden, saying:
Now hear me, for it is because I love you and wish your welfare that I speak thus. Why do you not escape into Natal, taking Nahoon with you, for there as you know you may live in peace out of reach of the arm of Cetywayo?" "That is my desire, Inkoos, but Nahoon will not consent.
All the Zulus might not over-eat themselves and go to sleep, especially after the death of their comrade; Nahoon, who watched him day and night, certainly would not. This was his opportunity there remained the question of Nahoon. Well, if it came to the worst, Nahoon must die: it would be easy he had a loaded rifle, and now that his assegai was gone, Nahoon had only a kerry.
"Why do you laugh, White Man?" asked Nahoon angrily. "I laugh at my own folly in wasting time listening to the nonsense of that lying fraud." "It is no nonsense, White Man." "Indeed? Then will you tell me what it means?" "I cannot tell you what it means yet, but her words have to do with a woman and a leopard, and with your fate and my fate."
"Do not grieve, Nanea, a hedge is never so tall and thick but that it cannot be climbed or crept through." She let fall her hands and looked at him eagerly, but he did not pursue the subject. "Tell me, how did I come here, Nanea?" "Nahoon and his companions carried you, Inkoos." "Indeed, I begin to be thankful to the leopard that struck me down.
"Have no fear, Nanea, he will surely wake, his hurts are not dangerous," answered another voice, that of Nahoon. "He fell heavily with the weight of the tiger on top of him, and that is why his senses have been shaken for so long. He went near to death, but certainly he will not die."
Wow! but you are good people to kill; never have I had to do with any who gave less trouble. You " and he stopped, for mental agony had done its work, and suddenly Nahoon went mad before his eyes. With a roar like that of a lion the great man cast off those who held him and seizing one of them round the waist and thigh, he put out all his terrible strength.
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