The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-06
NADIA TIL LILY.
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his kraal is stamped flat, and that Is
why hated the Black One, and there
fore | hate Dingaan his brother, and
will he as are Mopo and the house of
MOpo before / pay him tribute of a sin
gle OK"
Now. my father. all this while l had
spoken in n feigned voice, but now |
! spoke in my own voice, saying:
80. Now you speak from your
heart, young man. and by digging l
have reached the root of the matter. 1t
is because of this dead dog of a Mopo
that you defy the king
! Umslopogaas heard the voice and
! shock no more with anger, but rather
with fear and wonder. He looked at
me hard, answering nothing.
Have you hut near by, 0 Chief Bu-
! laliO. foe of Dingaan the king. where l,
the mouth of the king. may speak with
you awhile apart? For 1 would learn
! your message word by word that may
| deliver it. Fear not. Slaughterer, to sit
alone with me in an empty hut. L am
unarned and old, and there is that in
Your hand which l should fear" and
pointed to the AK.
Now Umslopogaas, still shaking in his
limbs, answered, Follow me. O Mouth,
and you, Galazi, stay with these men"
So | followed UmslOpOgaas, and pres
emily we came to a large hut. Now for
awhile it seemed dark in the hut, so
waited till our eyes could search the
darkness. Then of u sudden l threw the
blanket from my face
Look Oh me now, o Chief Bulalio, O
rhn
slopogaas-look on me and say who am
l." Then he looked at me and his jaw
fell
Either you are Mopo. my father,
grown oId-Mopo who is dead. OF the
ghost of Mopo." he answered in low
voice.
Il am Mopo, your father, UmslOpo-
gaas." said 'You have been long in
knowing me, who knew you from the
first"
Then Umslopogaas cried aloud, but
yet softly. and letting fall the ak (IrOan-
maker, he flung himself upon my breast
and wept there. And wept also
oh. my father" be said. Il thought
that you were dead with the others,
and now you have come back to me;
and IL would have lifted the ak
against you in my folly. Oh. it is well
that / have lived and not died. since
once more l look upon your face-the
face that thought dead, but which yet
hives, though it be sorely changed, as
though by grief and years"
Peace, UmslCpOgaes, my son" l
said Il also deemed you dead Al the
lions mouth, though in truth it seemed
60 %Io% nfh no
UmslOpogaas could have wrought the
deeds which have heard Of as done by
Bulalio, chief Of the People of the AK
aye, and thrown defiance in the teeth OF
Chaka But you are not dead. and L. l
am not dead. 1t was another MOpo
whom Chaka killed slew Chaka:
Chaka did not slay me"
And Of Nada-whst OF NADIA, my
sister be said.
"Macropha your mother and NADIA
your sister are dead, UmslOpOgaas.
They are dead at the hands of the peo-
pie of the Halakazi, who dwell in Swa-
ziland."
II have heard of that people" he an
swered presently, ''and 50 hasGalazi the
Wolf, yonder He has hate TO satisfy
against theIn-they murdered his father.
Now have two. for they have murdered
my mother and my sister. All. NADIA.
my sfsteS! NADIA, my sister," and the
great man rocked himself to and fro in
his. gTfeS.
Sdw. my father, It ceme into my
thougbksto make thu truth plain to UNI
slop9gaas. and tell him that NADIA was
no-sisteF Of his and that he was no son
- e ~ %
l did not, though now would that l
had done so. For saw well how great
was the pride and how high was the
heart of UmslopOgaas, and l saw also
that if once" he should learn that the
throne Of Zululand was his by right
nothing could hold him back. for he
would swiftly break into open rebellion
against Dingaan the king. and in my
Judgment the time was not ripe for that.
Had known, indeed. but one short
year befre that UmslopDSaas still lived,
he had sat where Dingaan sat this day;
hut did not know II, and the chance
had gone By for awhile Now Dlngaan
was king and mustered many regiments
around hiIn. for l had held him back
from war, as in the case of the raid that
he would have made upon the Swazis.
The chance had gone by. but IL would
come again, and till It came would say
nothing. would do this. rather-I
would tTIn1 Rngaan and UmsiOpOgaas
together, that UmslopogSas might be-
come known In the land as great chief
and the first OF warriors. Then would
cause him to be advanced to be an in
duna and a general TO lead the impis Of
the king, for he who leads the impis is
already half king
So held my peace upon this matter.
but till the dawn was gray Uns1Opogaas
and l sat together and talked. l told
him how all my wives and children had
been killed. how had been put to the
torment, and showed him my white and
withered hand. told him Also Of the
death of Baleka my sister and Of all
my people Of the Langeni, and Of how /
had reTenged my wrongs upon Cheka
and made Dingaan to be king m his
place and was now the first man in the