'Then we had better be going also, Son of Matiwane, lest he should change his mind and come back.

Live on, Son of Matiwane, that you may avenge Matiwane.'" "A nice tale," I said.

"But what happened afterwards ?" "Zikali took me away and nurtured me at his kraal in the Black Kloof, where he lived alone save for his servants, for in that kraal he would suffer no woman to set foot, Macumazahn.

He taught me much wisdom and many secret things, and would have made a great doctor of me had I so willed.

But I willed it not who find spirits ill company, and there are many of them about the Black Kloof, Macumazahn.