So that charge was dropped, and the first and greatest of the three proceeded with; namely, that it was she, Mameena, and not her husband, Masapo, who had murdered Nandie's child.
When this accusation was made against her, for the first time I saw a little shade of trouble flit across Mameena's soft eyes.
"Surely, O King," she said, "that matter was settled long ago, when the Ndwande, Zikali, the great Nyanga, smelt out Masapo the wizard, he who was my husband, and brought him to his death for this crime.

Must I then be tried for it again ?" "Not so, woman," answered Panda.

"All that Zikali smelt out was the poison that wrought the crime, and as some of that poison was found upon Masapo, he was killed as a wizard.

Yet it may be that it was not he who used the poison." "Then surely the King should have thought of that before he died," murmured Mameena.

"But I forget: It is known that Masapo was always hostile to the House of Senzangakona." To this remark Panda made no answer, perhaps because it was unanswerable, even in a land where it was customary to kill the supposed wizard first and inquire as to his actual guilt afterwards, or not at all.