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"How can I know one who is tied up like a gourd in a mat? Yet is it

not--is it not--"

"Yes, it is Mameena, and I am very pleased that you should remember my

voice, Macu

time," and, with a suddenherself in all her strange beauty

I juon-box and took her hand

"O Macumazana," she said, while I still held it--or, to be accurate,

while she still held ain," and she looked at ht, I could see appeared to float in tears

"A friend, Mameena!" I exclai chief, you must have plenty of friends"

"Alas! Macu except trouble, for rudged me this poor

kaross; and as for friends, he is so jealous that he will not allow me

any"

"He cannot be jealous of women, Mameena!"

"Oh, women! Piff! I do not care for women; they are very unkind to uess why, Macu at her own reflection in a little travelling

looking-glass that hung fro it to brush my hair, and smiled very sweetly

"At least you have your husband, Maht that perhaps by

this time--"