Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-10
CHAPTER XIV.

T
UMsLoPoeAAs AT DINeAAN's KRAAL.
On the morrow the impi awoke re-
freshed with sleep, and Umslopogaas
thanked them well, saying that the VIC
tory was great and the cattle they had
won were countless. Yet something was
lacking-she was lacking whom be came
20 seek to be a gift 20 Dingaan, the king,
and for whose sake this war was made,
- %There now was the Lily? Yesterday
she had been here, clad In moochs like
a man and bearing a shield-this he
knew from the captains; where then
was she now?
Then all the soldiers said that they
knew nothing of her. When they had
done Galazl spoke a word, as had been
agreed. He said that as they stormed
the cave ne had seen o man run at a
warrior In the cave TO STAY him. Then
as he came be who was about TO be
slain threw down the shield and cried
Tor mercy, aud Galazi knew that this
was no warrior Of the Halakazi, but a
girl very fair tO.see. So he called 70 the
man TO let her alone aud not to touch
her, for this was the order-that no
woman shoald be slain. But the soldier,
being mad with the lust of fight, shouted
that, maid or man, she should die, and
slew her. Thereupon he, Galazi, In his
wrath ran up and smote the man with
the Watcher, and slew him also, ard he
prayed that he had done no wrong.
"You have done well, my brother, "
said UmslOpOgaas. Come now, some
OF YOU, and let US look upon this dead
girl. Perchance IL is indeed the Lily.
and IL so IL is IN for US, for I krOw not
Whist tale we shall tell TO Dingaan Of the
.0atter."
So the captains went with Umslopo-
eaas and Galszi and came TO the spot
where the girl had been laid, and by her
the man of the People OF the AK.
"All is as the Wolf, my brother, has
told" said UmslopogaaS, waving the
torch IN his hand over the twain who
Law dead. "Here without doubt lies
she who was named the Lily, whom we
came to win, and by her that fool who
slew her, slain himself by the blow Of
the Watcher An ill sight TO see and an
fl tale for me 20 tell at the place OF
Dinesan. Still, what is, is, and cannot
be altered, and this maid, who was the
fairest Of the fair, is now none too lovely
90 look on. "Let US away and he
turned swiftly, then spoke again, say
ing:
"Bind up this girl In OK hides, cover
her with salt and let her be brought
with US" And they did so.
Then she captains said, surely IL is
.-a.-nay father; now 10 cannot be altered,
and Dlngaan must miss his BRIDE" So
said they an except that man who had
been captain Of the guard when UmslOpO-
oraas and Galazi and another passed
through the archway. This man, in
deed, said nothing, yet he was not with
out his thoughts. For IL seemed 20 him
that he had seen three pass through the
archway, and not two. Ii seemed TO
him. moreover, that the karosS which
the third wore had slipped aside as she
pressed past him and that beneath II he
had seen the shape Of woman, Won
drous fair. and above IL he bad caught
the CLINT o. wOman'S eye-an eye full
and dark, like q bucks. Moreover, this
captain noted that BulaliO called none
OF the captains TO swear 70 the body Of
the Lily maid and that be shook the
torch 10 and fro as be held 10 over her
&c whose hand was OF the steadieSt. All
II this he Kept In mis- mind, forgetting
nothing.
Now it Glanced afterward on the
omeward march. my father, that I'm
.ouoesas had cause TO speak sharply to
lis man because he sJroye TO rob an
a,r.of his share Of the spoil Of the
alskssi. He spoke sharply to him,
,grading him from his rank and setting
,otber over him. Also he took cattle
On the man and gave them to him
hom he would have robbed.
And thereafter, though he was justly
wed. the man thought more and more
the third, who had passed through the
81 Of the cave ana had not returned,
who seemed to him 10 have fair
mans shape. above which cleaned
ere Of woman
that day, then, Umslopogaas be-
his march TO the kraai Umgqgund-l
where Dingaan sat. But 6efor9