Accept it or reject it as your heart tells you." "If that story be true, O Zikali, how comes it that you yourself smelt out, not Mameena, the wife of Masapo, but Masapo, her husband, himself, and caused him to be slain because of the poisoning of the child of Nandie ?" "You err, O King.

I, Zikali, smelt out the House of Masapo.

Then I smelt out the poison, searching for it first in the hair of Mameena, and finding it in the kaross of Masapo.

I never smelt out that it was Masapo who gave the poison.

That was the judgment of you and of your Council, O King.