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"Izwa!" said the chorus in a loud voice

Zikali nodded his great head and seeain for an answer

"Good," he said; "they are many, and the dust has told thelared around him--"so many that if I

spoke theht--"

Here the audience began to show signs of great apprehension

"But," looking down at the dust and turning his head sideways, "what

do you say, what do you say? Speak row deaf Oh! now I understand The ht Just of one wizard--"

"Izwa!" (loudly)

"--just of a few deaths and some sicknesses"

"Izwa!"

"Just of one death, one principal death"

"Izwa!" (very loudly)

"Ah! So we have it--one death Noas it a man?"

"Izwa!" (very coldly)

"A woman?"

"Izwa!" (still more coldly)

"Then a child? It must be a child, unless indeed it is the death of a

spirit But what do you people know of spirits? A child! A child! Ah!

you hear me--a child A male child, I think Do you not say so, O Dust?"

"Izwa!" (emphatically)