It is sad, very sad, but I made the flashes fly, didn't I ?" "You old humbug," I said, "unless you are careful you will soon learn what comes of presumption in the old, for your chief is after you with an assegai, and it will take all your magic to dodge that." "Now you don't say so," said Indaba-zimbi, clambering off the waggon with rapidity; "and all because of this wretched upstart.

There's gratitude for you, white man.

I expose him, and they want to kill me.
Well, thank you for the hint.

We shall meet again before long," and he was gone like a shot, and not too soon, for just then some of the chief's men came up to the waggon.
On the following morning I started homewards.

The first face I saw on arriving at the station was that of Indaba-zimbi.
"How do you do, Macumazahn ?" he said, holding his head on one side and nodding his white lock.