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"I thank the King; but ill there be a crowd, Maputa?"

"Oh!" he answered with a shrug of the shoulders, "because of a new

thing All the tribes of the Zulus are to coht this about, and some say that it is

Umbelazi But I am sure that it is the work of neither of these, but of

Saduko, your old friend, though what his object is I cannot tell you

I only trust," he added uneasily, "that it will not end in bloodshed

between the Great Brothers"

"So Saduko has grown tall, Maputa?"

"Tall as a tree, Macu's ear is louder

than the shouts of others Moreover, he has become a 'self-eater' [that

is a Zulu terhty] You will have to

wait on him, Macumazahn; he will not wait on you"

"Is it so?" I answered "Well, tall trees are blon sometimes"

He nodded his wise old head "Yes, Macurow

and fall in oes with the strea so many, and, whatever

happens, none will hares to the King, who sends an ox for you to kill lest you should

grow hungry in his house"