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"She thinks well of it, U to him She told me herself that she wishes no other husband"

"Is it so?" replied U cohter desires, what more is there to be said?"

"Much, I think," broke in Cetewayo "I hold that it is out of place that

this little

the wit of Macumazahn here, should be rewarded not only with a

chieftainship, but with the hand of the wisest and h U to throw hi"

"Who threw the bone, Cetewayo?" asked U, or was it I, who never heard of the

matter till this 's decrees? Is it our business to judge or to obey?"

"Has Saduko perchance made you a present of some of those cattle which

he stole from the Amakoba, Umbelazi?" asked Cetewayo "As our father

asks no lobola, perhaps you have taken the gift instead"

"The only gift that I have taken from Saduko," said Umbelazi, who, I

could see, was hard pressed to keep his temper, "is that of his service

He is my friend, which is why you hate him, as you hate all my friends"