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told me with plainness that he was there because this was a convenient

spot on which to arrange the consolidation of his party

Alers--uised--came and went I should have liked to follow

their example--that is, so far as their departure was concerned--for

I felt that I was being drawn into a very dangerous vortex But, as

a ed to wait to

receive payment for my stuff, which, as usual, was ood deal at that tilish white ood treatment he was prepared to promise to

them, should he ever attain to authority in Zululand It was during one

of the earliest of these conversations, which, of course, I saw had an

ultimate object, that hetogether in a little natural glade of the bush that

bordered one side of the kraal, when, at the end of it, looking like

so sun,

appeared the lovely Mairdle of fur, her

necklace of blue beads and soourd

U his political talk, of which he

was obviously tired, asked ht be