Then did she slink back like a gorged lioness and place the thong of the red axe back upon his wrist and go her ways.
'And at the dawning the people came shouting, "Lousta is slain in the night," and they came unto the hut of the man, and there he lay asleep and by him was the red axe.

Then did they remember the war and say, "Lo! he hath of a surety slain his brother," and they would have taken and killed him, but he rose and fled swiftly, and as he fleeted by he slew the woman.
'But death could not wipe out the evil she had done, and on him rested the weight of all her sin.

Therefore is he an outcast and his name a scorn among his own people; for on him, and him only, resteth the burden of her who betrayed.

And, therefore, does he wander afar, without a kraal and without an ox or a wife, and therefore will he die afar like a stricken buck and his name be accursed from generation to generation, in that the people say that he slew his brother, Lousta, by treachery in the night-time.' The old Zulu paused, and I saw that he was deeply agitated by his own story.

Presently he lifted his head, which he had bowed to his breast, and went on: 'I was the man, Bougwan.