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Muttering some inaudible words, he turned to depart, and in doing so quite innocently, I think struck Nandie, knocking her over on to her back and causing the child to fall out of her arms in such fashion that its tender head struck against a pebble with sufficient force to cause it to bleed. Saduko leapt at him, smiting him across the shoulders with the little stick that he carried.
"These were the words of Mameena, Baas: 'Say to Macumazahn, your master, that Indhlovu-ene-sihlonti, taking pity on my wrongs and loving me with his heart, has offered to take me into his House and that I have accepted his offer, since I think it better to become the Inkosazana of the Zulus, as I shall one day, than to remain a servant in the house of Nandie.
"O Macumazana," he answered, "that dog Masapo has bewitched my boy, and unless you can save him he dies." "Nonsense," I said, "why do you utter wind? If the babe is sick, it is from some natural cause." "Wait till you see it," he replied. Well, I went into the big hut, and there found Nandie and some other women, also a native doctor or two.
Also I found that the child of the lady Nandie was dead, and that Masapo, the first husband of Mameena, had been smelt out and killed as the murderer of the child.
"Nahana," said Nandie, "you are brought here that you may repeat to the King and his council a tale which you told to me as to the coming of a certain woman into my hut before the death of my first-born son, and what she did there. Say first, is this woman present here?" "Aye, Inkosazana," answered Nahana, "yonder she sits.
For Saduko, as I have said, had become a "self-eater," and this day his pride was inflamed by the adulation of the company and by the beer that he had drunk. At length Nandie did come, carrying her babe, from which she never would be parted.
Presently he came opposite to me, and, to my dismay, paused, sniffing at me as he had at Nandie. "Ah! ah! O Macumazana," he said, "you have something to do with this matter," a saying at which all that audience pricked their ears. Then I rose up in wrath and fear, knowing my position to be one of some danger.
Cannot he suffer me to die in peace?" "Would you drive away your old friend, Macumazahn, Saduko?" asked Nandie very gently, "Macumazahn, who has come from far to see you?" He sat up, and, the blankets falling off him, showed me that he was nothing but a living skeleton. Oh! how changed from that lithe and handsome chief whom I used to know.
"A great gift, O my Father, since Nandie is both fair and wise. Also, what does she think of this matter?" "She thinks well of it, Umbelazi, for she has seen Saduko and taken a liking to him. She told me herself that she wishes no other husband." "Is it so?" replied Umbelazi indifferently. "Then if the King commands, and the King's daughter desires, what more is there to be said?"
The Princess Nandie, who is with him for she will not leave him in his trouble, as all others have done on hearing these words of Saduko's, said that they were true, and that for this reason, although you were her friend, she did not hold it necessary to see you either."
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