By the time I caught her she was some forty paces from the gate of the kraal.

But then her strength left her altogether.

Yes! there she fell senseless, and I stood by her.
And there, too, I should have been killed, had not this chanced, since the other two men, having stayed one instant by their dead fellows, came on against me mad with rage.

For at that moment the gate of the kraal opened, and through it ran a party of soldiers dragging a prisoner by the arms.

After them walked a great man, who wore a leopard skin on his shoulders, and was laughing, and with him were five or six ringed councillors, and after them again came a company of warriors.
The soldiers saw that killing was going on, and ran up just as the slayers reached us.
"Who are you ?" they cried, "who day to kill at the gate of the Elephant's kraal?
Here the Elephant kills alone." "We are of the children of Makedama," they answered, "and we follow these evildoers who have done wickedness and murder in our kraal.