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"'Wow!' he said when he kne the man had died 'This lion's cub is

a wizard also, for how else could he have killed a soldier who has knoar? Hold out his arms that I may finish hiu ca, not that his tale was done, but because his

voice choked in his throat Indeed, seldoasps, the sweat poured froave him a pannikin of water and he drank, then

he went on: "Already the spear had begun to prick--look, here is the mark of

it"--and opening his kaross he pointed to a little white line just

below the breast-bone--"when a strange shadow thrown by the fire of

the burning huts ca on its hind legs I looked round and saw that it was the shadow

of Zikali, whoh whence

he careat white head that sits on the top

of his body like a pu loudly

"'A ht,' he cried in his deep voice that sounded like water

in a hollow cave 'A u, Chief of the Amakoba! Blood,

blood, plenty of blood! Fire, fire, plenty of fire! Wizards dead here,

there, and everywhere! Oh, a ht! I have seen randreat