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[--Cannon were called "by-and-byes" by the natives, because

when field-pieces first arrived in Natal inquisitive Kafirs

pestered the soldiers to show theiven was always "By-and-bye!" Hence the nairl's titanic ambition literally

overwhels?"

"I areat, and you

knoell enough that I can do them, not by myself, who am but a woman

and tied with the ropes that bind women, but with you to cut those ropes

and help me I have a plan which will not fail But, Macued voice, "until I know that you will be my partner in

it I will not tell it even to you, for perhaps you ht talk--in your

sleep, and then the fire in ht talk now, for the matter of that, Mairls who chance to

love thes

or princes died, it ht say, 'I think I

knohere the witch lives who causes these evils'--in your sleep,

Macu your dreams on one side,

can I be false to ht of

you?"

"Saduko! Piff!" she exclaiesture of her hand

"And can I be false," I continued, seeing that Saduko was no good card

to play, "to hed "Why, would it not please hireat