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Now, in her unfeigned glee over the prospect of a new specimen, Lindela looked extremely attractive; and noting it, an unconscious softness had crept into the man's tone. Even the girls behind noticed it, and whispered to each other, sniggering: "Hau! Isityeli! Quite a wooer! Nyonyoba is hoeing up new land." "Withdraw a little from these, Lindela," he said in a lowered tone; "I would talk."
Ten tusks of ivory are even now being brought in," replied Laurence. "Also an unusually fine leopard skin which fell to my bullet, and which I would beg the king to accept." "You are a great hunter, Nyonyoba a very great one. Whau! The Ba-gcatya will become too rich if you tarry long among us," said Tyisandhlu quizzically, but evidently pleased at the news.
"Give me your word, Great Great One, in the sight of the whole nation," he said in a loud voice, "that these two shall be suffered to depart unharmed now, at once and I will take the place of Nomtyeketye." "That will I readily do, Nyonyoba, for I have no need of strangers here such as these," answered Tyisandhlu. Then, sadly, "And you are resolved?" "I am." "Then it must be.
And then his dark face turned a livid ashen white for with the dull stupor which lay heavy in the usually bright eyes, his own had rested upon something else. The shapely shoulder was swollen to an abnormal size, and at the back of it were two small round punctures. "She has been bitten. A snake, of course," he muttered. "And it is too late." "Yes, it is too late, Nyonyoba," she murmured.
We like to be married to men who are great in the nation powerful indunas if not too old, or those who have much cattle, or who will name us for their principal wife; but we know not how to love. Yet you have taught me, Nyonyoba. Say now, is it through the magic of the white people you have done it?"
The frightful priesthood of the demon paused, with staring eyes, to wait on what new turn events would take. "Say on, Nyonyoba," said Tyisandhlu shortly, looking anything but pleased at the interruption. "It is this, O Burning Wind. Let Nomtyeketye return to his own people. I will take his place." "You?" exclaimed the king, as a gasp of amazement shivered through the listeners.
"Nyonyoba! Ho, Nyonyoba!" again called the voice in soft, rich Zulu tones, low but penetrating. "Move now some thirty paces to where the cliff juts. There is that by which you may return to earth again and the Spider may go hungry." "The Spider has got enough to fill him up for some long time," answered Laurence, with excusable pride. "But who speaks? The voice is like that of Lindela."
The former motive may have counted, for Nondwana exercised a powerful influence in the nation. In aspect, he was a tall, fine, handsome man, with all the dignity of manner which characterized his royal brother, yet there was a sinister expression ever lurking in his face a cruel droop in the corner of the mouth. "Greeting, Nyonyoba.
"Say, Nyonyoba!" and the voice was full and rich, "say, Nyonyoba, what will you give me if I show you that which will delight your eyes? Will you love me very much very much?" and the soft musical Zulu word Ka-kúlu thus repeated was as a caress in itself. "Well then, come." She led the way a few yards, then halted. A bundle lay upon the ground, and this Lindela proceeded to undo.
They shall be led from the country with their eyes covered, lest they find the way back again. But if they do they likewise shall never depart from it. And now, Nyonyoba, all I have told you is between ourselves alone. Breathe not a whisper of it or anything about me even to your friends. For the present, farewell, and good fortune be yours."
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