"I _am_ rich; that is enough for the present.

Be pleased to send for Mameena, for I would talk with her." "Yes, yes, Saduko, I understand that you would talk with Mameena; but"-- and he looked round him desperately--"I fear that she is still asleep.

As you know, Mameena was always a late riser, and, what is more, she hates to be disturbed.

Don't you think that you could come back, say, to-morrow morning?
She will be sure to be up by then; or, better still, the day after ?" "In which hut is Mameena ?" asked Saduko sternly, while I, smelling a rat, began to chuckle to myself.
"I really do not know, Saduko," replied Umbezi.

"Sometimes she sleeps in one, sometimes in another, and sometimes she goes several hours' journey away to her aunt's kraal for a change.