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closed his eyes

"O Black One! O thou who consuamandhla]" broke

out Saduko, who, I could see, wasto

say to you"

"No doubt, no doubt," answered Panda drowsily, "but save up your thanks

till you have seen, or you will have none left afterwards," and he

snored slightly

Now I, perceiving that Saduko was about to ruin hih what business of mine it was to do so I cannot say

At any rate, if only I had held ue at this moment, and allowed

Saduko to make a fool of himself, as he wished to do--for where Mameena

was concerned he never could be wise--I verily believe that all the

history of Zululand would have run a different course, and that many

thousands of men, white and black, who are now dead would be alive

to-day But Fate ordered it otherwise Yes, it was not I who spoke, but

Fate The Angel of Doo that Panda dozed, I slipped behind Saduko and gripped him by the

arm

"Are you mad?" I whispered into his ear "Will you throay your

fortune, and your life also?"

"But Mameena," he whispered back "I would marry none save Mameena"