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CHAPTER XXXIII.


TIE VENGEANCE OF UMBOvA AND HIS Eos
TERIIHG.
1t CHANGED that on this day of Nada's
death and at that same hour of dawn, [,
Umbova, came from my mission back
to tho kraal of the People of the AK
having succeeded i'll my end, for that
great chief whom | had gone out to visit
had hearkencd to my words. As the
light broke | came to the town. and 10.
it was blackness and q dcsolation.
Hero is tho footInarls of Dingaan,"
said to myself and walked to and fro
groaning heavily. Presently found a
knot Of men Of the people who had es-
capped the slaughter hiding in tho mealie
fields lest the Slayers should return. ard
from them | drew all the story. Then |
asked where were the Slayers of the
king? Thoy replied that they knew not;
that they had gone up the Ghost noun
tain after the Wolf Brethren and NADIA
the Lily.
Let us go up the mountain" | said.
We followed on the path Of the impi
of the Slayers and saw all that had be-
fallen it. We went on in silence to
where | knew the cave must be, and
there by the cave lay the body Of a man.
ran to it. Ii was Umalopogaas, vast
ed with hunger, and III his temple was
great wound and on his breast and limbs
We're many other wounds. Moreover, in
his hand he held another hand a dead
hand that was thrust through hole in
the rock. | knew its shape well. 1t
was the hand of my child, NADIA the Lily.
Now | understood and bending down
| felt the heart Of Umslopogaas and laid
the down Of an eagle on his lips. His
heart still stirred, and the down was
lifted family.
babe those with inc drag aside the
stone, and they did so with toll. Now
the light flowed into the cave and by it
we saw the shape Of NADIA, my daugh-
ter She was somewhat wasted, but
still very beautiful in her death. felt
her heart also. 1t was still and her
breast grew cold.
Then | spoke. "The dead to the dead.
Let us tend the living"
So we bore in Umslopogaas and |
caused broth to be made and poured it
down his throat; also | cleansed his
great wound and bound healing herbs
upon it, plying all my skill. And there
III the hole | set NADIA, my daughter, and
we hcapcd lily blooms upon her to keep
the earth from her and then closed in
her grave, for | was not minded that
Umslopogaas should look upon her dead
| lest he also should die of tho sight and
Of his desire TO follow her. / also buried
Galazi the Wolf in the cave and set the
| Watcher in his hand, and there they
! both sleep, who are friends at last tho
, Lily and tho Wolf. together All, when
| shall there be such another man and
| such another maid!
At last, ON the third day Umslopogaas
/ spoke, asking for NADIA. pointed to
/ the earth and he remembered and under
stood Thereafter the strength of UNI
slopogaas came back to him slowly, and
/ the hole i'll his skull skinned over. But
Tow his hair was griZ2lcd and he scarce
( ly smiled again, bur grew even moro
| grim and stern than he had been before.
! Soon we learned all the truth as to
/ Ziuita for the women and the children
/ came back 10 the town of tho People of
/ the AK, only Zinita and the children of
/ CmslopogaaS did not come back Also
/ a spy came to me from tho Mahlahatine
and told me Of the end of Xinita and
the flight Of Dingaan before the Beers.
Now when Cmslopogaas was rccOv-
| cred asked him what no would do, and
| whether or no | should pursue my plots
TO make him king Of the land
! But Umslopu~aas shook his head,
7 ~ 4
/ He would destroy a king indeed, but
now he Sought no more to lie a king
! He sought revenge alone | said that
| ii was well; also sought revenge, and
! seeking together VIC would find il.
This camc into my miud-to play off
! Pauda against Dingaan, Ii was Cor such
! an hour Of need that had saved Panla
! alive. After the baltic Of the Blood
| river Dingaan summoned PanGa to "
! hunt. Then it was that | came to the
/ kraal of Pandn. on the Lower Tugcla,
/ and with me UmslOpogaas. warned
! Pauda that he should not go to this
hunt, for he was the game himself, but
I that no should rather fly into Natal with
/ I'll lis people. lie did so. and then |
/ opened talk with the Beers. and moro
! especially with that Bocr who was
| named UnGalunl.ulu or Great Arm.
/ showed The Boer that Dugaan was
wicked aud not TO be believed. but
Pandu was faithful and good. Tho end
Of it was that tho Doors and Umpanda
made war together on Diugaan.
That finished it, my father, for thoy
feared to stand against Us both, the
white and the black together. They
/ fed and we followed and slew, and Din
| gam ceased to be "a king.
He ceased to be a king, but he yet
lived, and while he lived our vengeance
was hungry. SO we went to the Boer