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Child of Storm

CHAPTER XV
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I have said that I set the medicine in the hut.
I have not said, and I will not say, how and why I set it there.

That tale I call upon Saduko yonder to tell to you, he who was my husband, that I left for Umbelazi, and who, being a man, must therefore hate me.
By the words he says I will abide.

If he declares that I am guilty, then I am guilty, and prepared to pay the price of guilt.

But if he declares that I am innocent, then, O King and O Prince Cetewayo, without fear I trust myself to your justness.

Now speak, O Saduko; speak the whole truth, whatever it may be, if that is the King's will." "It is my will," said Panda.
"And mine also," added Cetewayo, who, I could see, like everyone else, was much interested in this matter.
Saduko rose to his feet, the same Saduko that I had always known, and yet so changed.


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