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also some pebbles, from which he selected two, one white and the other

black

"Into this stone," he said, holding up the white pebble so that the

light frolow, it was noing dark--"into this stone I am about to draw

your spirit, O Macumazana; and into this one"--and he held up the black

pebble--"yours, O Son of Matiwane Why do you look frightened, O brave

White Man, who keep saying in your heart, 'He is nothing but an ugly

old Kafir cheat'? If I ahtened? Is your

spirit already in your throat, and does it choke you, as this little

stone ht do if you tried to s it?" and he burst into one of his

great, uncanny laughs

I tried to protest that I was not in the least frightened, but failed,

for, in fact, I suppose estion, and

I did feel exactly as though that stone were indoards "Hysteria," thought I toovertired," and as I could not speak, sat still as

though I treated his gibes with silent contempt