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I have not said, and I will not say, how and why I set it there That

tale I call upon Saduko yonder to tell to you, he asa man, must therefore hate me

By the words he says I will abide If he declares that I auilty, and prepared to pay the price of guilt But if he declares

that I a and O Prince Cetewayo, without fear

I trust myself to your justness Now speak, O Saduko; speak the whole

truth, whatever it 's will"

"It is my will," said Panda

"And mine also," added Cetewayo, who, I could see, like everyone else,

was much interested in this matter

Saduko rose to his feet, the saed All the life and fire had gone from him; his pride

in himself was no more; none could have known him for that ambitious,

confident man who, in his day of power, the Zulus named the

"Self-Eater" He was a mere mask of the old Saduko, informed by some

new, some alien, spirit With dull, lack-lustre eyes fixed always upon

the lovely eyes of Maan his

tale