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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 Gaazi 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 bis hand over the twain who
lay 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 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
~ to look OH, Let us away" and he
turned swiftly, then spoke again, saving:
her with salt and let her be brought
with u.s." Aad they did so.
Then the captains said, Surely it is
so, my father; now it cannot be altered,
and Dinyaan must miss his bride" So
said they all except that man who had
been captain of the guard when Umslop-
| OgaaS and GalaZi ana another passed
through the archway. This man, in
deed, said nothing, yet he was not with
out his thoughts. For 1t seemed to him
that he had seen three pass through the
archway, and not two. 1t seemed to
him, moreover, that the l1aross 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 o woman's cyc--an eye full
and dark like a bucks. Moreover, this
taptain noted that Bulalio called none
IF 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.
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homeward march, my father, that I'm
slopogaas had cause to speak sharply to
this man because he strovc to rob another
of his share of the spoil of the Halaliazi.
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