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"She is not an intoain a wife, the second wife of your friend and councillor, Saduko, and

the daughter of your host, Umbezi"

"Is it so, Macuh, as it

chances, I have never met her before No wonder that my sister Nandie is

jealous, for she is beautiful indeed"

"Yes," I answered, "she looks pretty against the red sky, does she not?"

By noere drawing near to Ma

"Nothing, Macumazahn," she answered in her delicate, modest way, for

never did I know anyone who could seelance of her shy eyes at the tall and splendid U with the ave ht that perhaps, as

the day has been so hot, you ourd from her head, she held it out to me

I thanked her, drank some--who could do less?--and returned it to her,

whereon she h she would hasten to depart

"May I not drink also, daughter of Umbezi?" asked Umbelazi, who could

scarcely take his eyes off her