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"Between Cetewayo and Umbelazi, Mameena?"

"Aye, between Cetewayo and Uons of

yours are loaded with guns for which so ame with, I think Well, this little kraal of my father's is

just now the headquarters of the Uqosa, as the

princedom of Gikazi is that of Cetewayo My poor father!" she added,

with her characteristic shrug, "he thinks hireat to-day,

as he did after he had shot the elephant--before I nursed you,

Macumazahn--but often I wonder ill be the end of it--for hi yourself"

"I!" I answered "What have I to do with your Zulu quarrels?"

"That you will knohen you have done with them, Macumazahn But here

is the kraal, and before we enter it I wish to thank you for trying to

protect that unlucky husband of ht hih, as I always told you, I

hated him, the man hom my father forced me to marry But I am

afraid, froether

innocent You see, Saduko had struck hiet

Also, he was jealous of Saduko, who had been my suitor, and wished to

injure him But what I do not understand," she added, with a burst of