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in your shadow? Only yesterday he told me to marry you, if I could, for

then he would find a stick indeed to lean on, and be rid of Saduko's

troubling"

Evidently Umbezi was a worse card even than Saduko, so I played another

"And can I help you, Mameena, to tread a road that at the best must be

red with blood?"

"Why not," she asked, "since with or without you I a that with you it will lead to glory

and without you perhaps to the jackals and the vultures? Blood! Piff!

What is blood in Zululand?"

This card also having failed, I tabled lory, I do not wish to share it, Ma a people who have entertained me hospitably, or plot the

downfall of their Great Ones As you told rain of sand upon a white shore--but I had rather be that than a

haunted rock which draws the heavens' lightnings and is drenched with

sacrifice I seek no throne over white or black, Marave that shall perhaps not be without honour of

its own, though other than you seek I will keep your counsel, Mameena,

but, because you are so beautiful and so wise, and because you say you

are fond of me--for which I thank you--I pray you put away these fearful

dreams of yours that in the end, whether they succeed or fail, will

send you shivering froh"