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"Get thee behind lish, then added in Zulu: "I

don't know If your story is true I should have no objection to helping

to kill Bangu; but I must learn lotson a shooting trip to-morroith Umbezi the Fat,

and I like you, O Chooser of the Road of Spears and Blood Will you be

un with twohis hand in salute with a flash of his dark

eyes, "you are generous, you honour me What is there that I should love

better? Yet," he added, and his face fell, "first I must ask Zikali the

Little, Zikali my foster-father"

"Oh!" I said, "so you are still tied to the Wizard's girdle, are you?"

"Not so, Macuo that I would

undertake no enterprise, save that you know of, until I had spoken with

him"

"How far off does Zikali live?" I asked Saduko

"One day's journeying Starting at sunrise I can be there by sunset"

"Good! Then I will put off the shooting for three days and come with you

if you think that this wonderful old dill receive me"