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Nada the Lily

CHAPTER VI
10/19

Give him to me that I may take him outside the kraal and wake him to life by my medicine." "It is of no use--the child is dead," said Anadi.
"Give him to me, woman!" I said fiercely.

And she gave me the body.
Then I took him and wrapped him up in my bundle of medicines, and outside of all I rolled a mat of plaited grass.
"Suffer none to enter the hut till I return," I said; "and speak no word of the child that seems to be dead.

If you allow any to enter, or if you speak a word, then my medicine will not work and the babe will be dead indeed." So I went, leaving the women wondering, for it is not our custom to save both when twins are born; but I ran swiftly to the gates of the Emposeni.
"I bring the medicines, men of the king!" I said to the guards.
"Pass in," they answered.
I passed through the gates and into the hut of Baleka.

Unandi was alone in the hut with my sister.
"The child is born," said the mother of the king.

"Look at him, Mopo, son of Makedama!" I looked.


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