Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-09-02

said To- myself, and walked to and fro
groaning heavily. Presently found a
knot of men of the people who had es-
Chi"d the slaus Inter hiding i'll the mealio
fields lest the Slayers should return, and
from them | drew all the story. Then l
asked where We're the Slayers of the
king? They 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
If the Slayers and saw all that had be-
fallen it. We went ON in silence to
where | knew TIE cave must be, and
there by the cave lay the body of man.
| ran TO it. 1t was Umslopogaas, vast
al with hunger, and in his temple was
great wound and on his breast and limbs
were many other wounds. Moreover, in
his hand he held another hand, q 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.
hado those with me 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. 1.-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
in the hole set NADIA, my daughter, and
we heaped lily blooms upon her to keep
the earth from her and then closed in
her grave, for l was not minded that
Umslopogaas should look upon her dead
lest he also should die of the 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, the
Lily and the Wolf, together. All. when
shall there he 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 Um-
slopogaas came back to him slowly, and
the hole in his skull skinned over. But
now his hair was grizzled and he scarce
ly smiled again, but grew even more
grim and stern than he had been before.
Soon we learned all the truth as to
Zinita. for the women and the children
came back to the town of the People of
the AK, only Zinita and the children of
Cmslopogaas did not come back. Also
n spy came to me from the Mahlabatine
and told me of the end of Zinita and
the flight of Dingaan before the Beers.
Now when Umslopogaas was recov-
cred ! asked him what he would do, and
whether or no should pursue my plots
TO make him king of the land.
But Umslopogaas shook his head.
saying that he had no heart that way.
He would destroy king indeed, but
now he sought no more to be king.
He sought revenge alone. | said that
il was well; | also sought revenge, and
seeking together we would find it.
This came into my mind-to play off
Panda against Dingaan. 1t was for such
an hour of need that | had saved Panda
alive. After the battle of the Blood
river Dingaan summoned Panda to a
hunt. Then it WIS that l came to the
kraal Of Panda. on the Lower Tugela,
and with me Umslopogaas. l warned
Panda that he should not 20 to this
hunt: for he was the game himself, but
that he should rather fly into Natal with
all his people. He did SO. and then
opened talk with the Beers, and more
especially with that Boer who was
named Ungalunkulu, or Great Arm.
showed the Boer that Dingaan was
wicked and not to be believed, but
Panda was faithful and good. The end
of it was that the Beers and Umpanda
made war together on Dingaan.
That finished it, my father, for they
feared to stand against us both, the
white and the black together. They
fled and we followed and slew, and Dim
gam ceased to be 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
captain and to Panda and spoke to them
nicely, saying: I'VE have served you
well; we have fought for you and SO or
dered things that victory is yours. Now
grant US this reQuest-that we may fol-
low Dingaan, who has fled into hiding,
and slay him wherever we find him, for
he has worked US wrong and We would
avenge it."
Then the white captain and Panda
smiled and said: go, children, and
prosper in your search. No one thing
shall please US more than to know that
bingham is dead" And they gave us
men to go with us.
Then we hunted him week by week,
rs men hunt a wounded buffalo. We
lay hid in the bush watching. At last
our chance came. Dingaan walked in
the bush, and with him two men only.
We slew the men and seized him.
Now Dingaan prayed for mercy.
Mercy? thou hyenaw answered.
Thou prayest for mercy who showed
none TO any. Give me back my daugh-
ter. Give this man back his wife and
! children. Then we will talk of mercy
Come forth, coward, and die the death
Of towards"
So, my father, we dragged him forth
grooming, to the cleft that is above in
the breast Of the old Stone Witch, that
cleft where Galazi had found the bones
There we stood waiting for the moment
Of the dawn, that moment when NADIA
had died. Then we cried her name into
his ears and the names Of the children
OF Umslopogaas and cast him into the
cleft.
That is the tale of NADIA the Lily, my
father, and how we avenged her.