The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-22
 THE LADY OF THE HEAVENS.
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 'I see this place at night I see wonder King and his councillors talk ! ing to a white man with evil eyes and l the face of a hawk, who has been
 wounded on the head and foot. read 1 their lips. They bargain together; it | is of the bringing of an old prophet ! and his wife hither by force. I see
 the prophet and his wife in a house. and with them Zulrs. By the com | eyes the Zulus kill the prophet whose 1 head is bald, and his wife dies upon | the bed. Before they kill the prophet | he stays one of the Zulus with smoke 1 that comes from an iron tube When he heard all this Dingaan groaned. but the dwarf who had spoken, taking no heed of him, said | to the third dwarf:
 What SeeSt thou. Priest?'' to which | that dwarf answered.:
 M see the White One wonder stand Ing on a hut, but her Spirit has fled 1 from her, it has fled from her to | haunt the Trees. In her hand is a spear, and below is the white man | with the evil eyes, held by Zulus. I read her words: she says that there ! is blood,' and he shivered as he said the word, ives, blood between her l Spirit and the people of the Zulus. 1 She prophecies evil to them. I see the ill; see many burnt in a. great | fire. I see many drowned in an angry | river. I see the demons of sickness 1 lay hold of many. I see her Spirit call up the locusts from the coast | land. I see it bring disaster on their arms; I see it scatter plague among 1 their cattle; I see dim shape that it summons striding towards this land. It travels fast over a winter veld and l the head of it is the head of a skull, and the name of it is Famine" As he ended his words the three dwarfs bent forward, and with one movement seized their bowls and emptied them on to the ground, say ing:
 Earth, Earth, drink, drink and bear record of these visions,'
 Now the Council was much disturb ed. for although there were great witch doctors among them, none had known magic like to this. Only Din- gaan stared down breeding. Then he looked up, and his fat body shook with hoarse laughter.
 You play pretty tricks, little men," heS said, with your giants and your boughs and your huts that open, and your bowls of water. But for all that they are only tricks, since Noie, or others, have told you of these things you are wizards indeed, read me the riddle of the words of the Inkosazana that she spoke before her Spirit left her because of the evil acts of the wolf. Ibubesi. Show me the answer to them in your bowls of water, little men, or be driven hence as cheats and liars. Also tell us your names by which we may know you.''
 When Noie had translated this speech the three dwarfs gathered themselves under one umbrella, and spoke to each other; then they slid back to their places, and the first of them, he who had cursed the soldier, said:
 King of the Zulus, I am Eddo, this on my right is Pani, and that on my left is Hama We are children of the
 
 priests of the Grey-people. the Dream people, who rule by dreams and wis dom, not by spears as thou dost, O King. We are the Ghost-ktngs whom the ghosts obey, We are the masters of the dead, and the readers of hearts. Those are our names and titles, O King. We have travelled hither be- cause thou sentest a messenger of our own blood who whispered strange tale in the ear of the Mother of the Trees. tale of one of whom we knew already but desired to see," and all three of them nodded toward Rachel thy riddle. O King, but first thou must fix the fee.''
 What do you demand, Ghost-peo- ple?'' asked Dingaan. Cattle are wives I think would be of little use to you. What is there then that you desire. and I can give?"
 They looked at each other, then
  upon which the nails grew long:
 We ask for the White One who sits there. We think that her Spirit dwells with us already, and we ask her body that we may join it to the Spirit again.
 Now the Council murmured, but Dingaan replied:
 .'once we sought to keep her in whom dwelt the Inkosazana of the | Zulus. But things have gone amiss, | and she brings curses on us. If shape l and spirit were joined together again, the curses would be taken off our heads. Yet we dare not give her to you, unless she gives herself of her own will. Moreover, first the divina- tion, then the pay Is that enough?"
 It is enough" they answered matter, King of the Zulus, and we will see what we can do.''
 Then Dingaan becl1oned to a man with a withered hand who sat close to him, listening and noting all things, but saying nothing, and said:
 stand forth, thou Mopo. and tell the tale.''
 So Mopo rose and began his story. pie of the Zulus had thrice seen the spirit of the InkoSa zana in the days of the 'Black-One-who- gone" He told how many moons ago the white man, Tbubesi, had come to the Great Place speaking of a beautiful white maiden who was known by the name of the Inkosazana-Zoola. a maiden who ruled the lightning, and was not as other mafdens are, and how he had been sent to see her. and found that as was the Spirit of the Inkosazana which he knew. so was this maiden.
 "Wow.' he added, "save that the one walked on air and the other on earth, they are the same.''
 Moreover a spirit she seemed wise. He told of the trapping of Noie, and the decoying of Rachel into Zulu lar md of ha into 1,Afx ger and the King by moonlight when she smelt out Noie. Now he was gO- ng on to speak of the question put by Oingaan to the Inkosazana, and the answer that she gave to him, when one Jf the little men who all this while sat as though they were asleep, blink ng their eyes in the light-it was Ed 
 Surely thou forgetest something. Tongue of the King, thou who art named Mopo, or Umbopa, Son of thou forgetest certain words which the Inkosazana whisper