But doubtless I am mistaken, and it is all as dead as Dingaan, and as Retief, and as the others, your companions.
At least, although you do not believe it, I saved your life on that red day, for my own purposes, of course, not because one white life was anything among so many in my count.

And now go to rest, Macumazahn, go to rest, for although your heart has been awakened by memories this evening, I promise that you shall sleep well to-night," and throwing the long hair back off his eyes he looked at me keenly, wagging his big head to and fro, and burst into another of his great laughs.
So I went.

But, ah! as I went I wept.
Anyone who knew all that story would understand why.

But this is not the place to tell it, that tale of my first love and of the terrible events which befell us in the time of Dingaan.

Still, as I say, I have written it down, and perhaps one day it will be read..