San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-22
CHAPTER XIV.

UMsLoPoGAAS AT DINGAAN'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 he came
to seek to be a gift to Dingaan, the king,
and for whose sake this war was made.
Where now was the Lily? Yesterday
she had been here, clad in a moocha 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 Galazi spoke word, as had been
agreed. He said that as they stormed
the cave he had seen man run at a
warrior in the cave to Stay him. Then
as he came he who was about to be
slain threw down the shield and cried
for mercy, and Galazi knew that this
was no warrior of the Halakazi, but a
girl very fair to see. So he called to the
man to let her alone and not to touch
her, for this was the order-that no
women should be slain. But the soldier,
being mad with the lust of fight, shouted
that, maid or man, she should die, and
slew herI Thereon he, Galazi, in his
wrath ran up and smote the man with
the Watcher, and slew him also, and 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 it is indeed the Lily,
and if so it is i'll for US, for know not
what tale we shall tell to Dingaan of
the matter"
So the captains went with Umslopo-
gaas and Galazi and came to the spot
where the girl had been laid, and by her
the man of the People of the AK.
"Alf is as the Wolf, my brother, has
told," said Umslopogaas, waving the
torch in his hand over the twain who
lay dead. Here without a 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 i'll sight to see and an
i'll tale for me to tell at the place of
Dingaan. Still, what is, is, and cannot
be altered, and this maid, who was the
fairest of the fair, is now none too love
ly to look on. Let us away" and he
turned swiftly, then spoke again, saying:
Blind up this girl in OK hides, cover
her with salt and let her be brought
with u.s." And they did so.
Then the captains said, Surely it is
so, my father; now it cannot be altered,
and Dingaan must miss his bride" SO
said they all except that man who had
Seen captain of the guard when Umslop-
ogaas and Galazi and another passed
through the archway. This man, in
deed, said nothing, yet he was not with
out his thoughts. For it seemed to him
that he had seen three pass through the
archway, and not two. 1t seemed to
him, moreover, that the kaross which
the third wore had slipped aside as she
pressed past him and that beneath it he
had seen the shape of woman, Won
drous fair, and above it he had caught
the CLINT of a woman's eye-an eye full
and dark, like a bucks. Moreover, this
captain noted that Buialio called none
of the captains to swear to the body of
the Lily maid and that he shook the
torch to and fro as he held it over her
he whose hand was of the steadiest. All
of this he kept in his mind, forgetting
nothing.
Now it CHANGED afterward on the
homeward march, my father, that UNI
slopogaas had cause to speak sharply to
this man because he strove to rob another
of his share of the spoil of the Halakazi.
He spoke sharply to him, degrading him
from his rank and setting another over
him. Also he took cattle from the man
and gave them to him whom he would
have robbed.
And thereafter, though he was justly
served, the man thought more and more
of the third, who had passed through the
arch of the cave and had not returned,
and who seemed to him to have fair
woman's shape, above which CLEANED
the eye of a woman.
On that day, then, Umslopogaas began
his march to the kraal Umgugundhlovu,
where Dingaan sat. But before he set
his face homeward in the presence of
the soldiers he asked Galazi the Wolf If
he would come back with him or if he
would stay to be chief of the Halakazi,
as he was by right of birth and war
Then the Wolf laughed and answered
that he had come out to seek for venge-
auce, and not for the place of chief;
also that there were few of the Halakazi
people left over whom he might rule if