aid my father. 'But when I am gone, look
to yourself, my son, for these Swazi dogs will drive you out and rob you
of your place! But if they drive you out and you still live, swear this
to me--that you will not rest till you have avenged me.'

"'I swear it, my father,' I answered. 'I swear that I will stamp out the
men of the tribe of Halakazi, every one of them, except those of my own
blood, and bring their women to slavery and their children to bonds!'

"'Big words for a young mouth,' said my father. 'Yet shall you live to
bring these things about, Galazi. This I know of you now in my hour of
death: you shall be a wanderer for a few years of your life, child of
Siguyana, and wandering in another land you shall die a man's death, and
not such a death as yonder witch has given to me.' Then, having spoken
thus, he lifted up his head, looked at me, and with a great groan he
died.

"Now I passed out of the hut dragging the body of the dead girl after
me. In front of the hut were gathered many headmen waiting for the end,
and I saw that their looks were sullen.

"'The chief, my father, is dead!' I cried in a loud voice, 'and I,
Galazi, who am the chief, have slain her who murdered him!' And I rolled
the body of the girl over on to her back so that they might look upon
her face.

"Now the father of the girl was among those who stood before me, he who
had persuaded her to the deed, and he was maddened at the sight.

"'What, my brothers?' he cried. 'Shall we suffer that this young Zulu
dog, this murderer of a girl, be chief over us? Never! The old lion is
dead, now for the cub!' And he ran at me with spear aloft.

"'Never!' shouted the others, and they, too, ran towards me, shaking
their spears.

"I waited, I did not hasten, for I knew well that I should not die then,
I knew it from my father's last words. I waited till the man was near
me; he thrust, I sprang aside and drove my spear through him, and on the
daughter's body the father fell dead. Then I shouted aloud and rushed
through them. None touched me; none could catch me; the man does not
live who can overtake me when my feet are on the ground and I am away."

"Yet I might try," said Umslopogaas, smiling, for of all lads among the
Zulus he was the swiftest of foot.

"First walk again, then run," answered Galazi.

"Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one."

"Something is left to tell, stranger. I fled from the country of the
Halakazi, nor di