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To this remark Panda made no answer, perhaps because it was

unanswerable, even in a land where it was customary to kill the supposed

wizard first and inquire as to his actual guilt afterwards, or not at

all Or perhaps he thought it politic to ignore the suggestion that he

had been inspired by personal enhter,

Nandie, who rose and said: "Have I leave to call a witness on this matter of the poison, my

Father?"

Panda nodded, whereon Nandie said to one of the councillors: "Be pleased to summon my woman, Nahana, aits without"

The man went, and presently returned with an elderly female who, it

appeared, had been Nandie's nurse, and, never havingto

some physical defect, had always remained in her service, a person well

known and much respected in her huht here that youand his council a tale which you told toof

a certain woman into my hut before the death of my first-born son, and

what she did there Say first, is this woman present here?"

"Aye, Inkosazana," answered Nahana, "yonder she sits Who couldto every word

intently, as a dog listens at thebeneath

"Then what of the wohts before the child that is dead was taken

ill, I saw Mameena creep into the hut of the lady Nandie, I as