"Tell me, Umbezi, is this little chief of the Amansomi your daughter's accepted suitor ?" "Nay, nay, Saduko," said Umbezi; "no one is her accepted suitor.

Will you not sit down and take food with us?
Tell us where you have been, and why you return here thus suddenly, and--uninvited ?" "I return here, O Umbezi, to speak with the white chief, Macumazahn.

As to where I have been, that is my affair, and not yours or Masapo's." "Now, if I were chief of this kraal," said Masapo, "I would hunt out of it this hyena with a mangy coat and without a hole who comes to devour your meat and, perhaps," he added with meaning, "to steal away your child." "Did I not tell you, Macumazahn, that when two bucks met they would fight ?" whispered Mameena suavely into my ear.
"Yes, Mameena, you did--or rather I told you.

But you did not tell me what the doe would do." "The doe, Macumazahn, will crouch in her form and see what happens--as is the fashion of does," and again she laughed softly.
"Why not do your own hunting, Masapo ?" asked Saduko.

"Come, now, I will promise you good sport.