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"'Only what?' asked Bangu, hesitating

"'Only I wonder, Bangu, what you will think of the world in which you

will find yourself before to-u, for there are so many worlds beyond the sun, and I would

learn for certain which of theain murders the father and the mother and then

butchers the child--the child that could slay a warrior who has seen

ith the spear hot from his mother's heart' "'Do you u in a

great voice

"'What else?' answered Zikali, taking another pinch of snuff

"'This, Wizard; that ill go together' "'Good, good!' laughed the dwarf 'Let us go together Long have I

wished to die, and what better cou, Chief

of the Auard u, cohed

at hi, for they

found this business horrible Yes, even those who held o of

them

"'What will happen to u

"Zikali stretched out his hand and touched the scratch that the assegai

had er red with ht of the ue

"'I think this will happen to you, Bangu,' he said 'If you spare this

boy he will grow into a man ill kill you and many others one day