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"Would you drive away your old friend, Macuently, "Macumazahn, who has come fro off hi skeleton Oh! how changed from that lithe and

handsome chief whom I used to know Moreover, his lips quivered and his

eyes were full of terrors

"Is it really you, Macumazahn?" he said in a weak voice "Coet between us," and he

stretched out his bony hand

I took the hand; it was icy cold

"Yes, yes, it is I, Saduko," I said in a cheerful voice; "and there is

no et between us; only the lady Nandie, your wife, and one"

"Oh, no, Macumazahn, there is another in the hut whom you cannot see

There he stands," and he pointed towards the hearth "Look! The spear is

through hih whom, Saduko?"

"Whom? Why, the Prince Umbelazi, whom I betrayed for Mameena's sake"

"Why do you talk wind, Saduko?" I asked "Years ago I saw

Indhlovu-ene-Sihlonti die"