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He sniffed at the air as a dog does, and as he sniffed drew ever nearer

to Nandie, till at last he laughed and pointed to her

"Your child, Princess, whose name I do not know Your firstborn child,

whom you loved a," she cried "I am the Princess Nandie, and he was my

child, whom I loved more than my own heart"

"Haha!" said Zikali "Dust, you did not lie to me My Spirit, you did

not lie to me But now, tell me, Dust--and tell an to waddle round the circle, an extraordinary sight, covered

as he ith grey grime, varied with streaks of black skin where the

perspiration had washed the dust away

Presently he ca at

me as he had at Nandie

"Ah! ah! O Macu to do with this

at which all that audience pricked their ears

Then I rose up in wrath and fear, knowing er

"Wizard, or Smeller-out of Wizards, whichever you name yourself," I

called in a loud voice, "if you mean that I killed Nandie's child, you

lie!"

"No, no, Macumazahn," he answered, "but you tried to save it, and

therefore you had so to do with the matter, had you not?