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"Fool!" I answered "Mameena has betrayed and spat upon you Take what

the Heavens send you and give thanks Would you wear Masapo's soiled

blanket?"

"Macumazahn," he said in a hollow voice, "I will follow your head, and

not e seed, Macumazahn, or so you ave htenedin this look which caused ht

do well to go away and leave Saduko, Mameena, Nandie, and the rest of

them to "dree their weirds," as the Scotch say, for, after all, as

ht, and not

collecting any stew

Yet, looking back on these events, how could I foresee ould be the

end of the madness of Saduko, of the fearful machinations of Mameena,

and of the weakness of Umbelazi when she snared hi about his ruin, through the hate of Saduko and the

ambition of Cetewayo? How could I know that, at the back of all these

events, stood the old dwarf, Zikali the Wise, working night and day

to slake the eno he had

conceived and planned against the royal House of Senzangakona and the

Zulu people over whoreat stone upon the brow of

a mountain, slowly, remorselessly, with infinite skill, labour, and

patience, pushing that stone to the edge of the cliff, whence at length,