dow of the shining club lie cold upon his brow, and again he
shook--this time it was with fear.

"Begone in peace!" he said.

"A good word for thee, King," said the Wolf, grinning, and slowly he
drew himself backwards towards the companies, saying, "Praise the king!
The king bids his children go in peace."

But when Dingaan felt that his brow was no longer cold with the shadow
of death his rage came back to him, and he would have called to
the soldiers to fall upon the People of the Axe, only I stayed him,
saying:--

"Thy death is in it, O King; the Slaughterer will grind such men as thou
hast here beneath his feet, and then once more shall the Watcher look
upon thee."

Now Dingaan saw that this was true, and gave no command, for he had only
those men with him whom the fire had left. All the rest were gone to
slaughter the Boers in Natal. Still, he must have blood, so he turned on
me.

"Thou art a traitor, Mopo, as I have known for long, and I will serve
thee as yonder dog served his faithless servant!" and he thrust at me
with the assegai in his hand.

But I saw the stroke, and, springing high into the air, avoided it.
Then I turned and fled very swiftly, and after me came certain of the
soldiers. The way was not far to the last company of the People of the
Axe; moreover, it saw me coming, and, headed by Umslopogaas, who walked
behind them all, ran to meet me. Then the soldiers who followed to kill
me hung back out of reach of the axe.

"Here with the king is no place for me any more, my son," I said to
Umslopogaas.

"Fear not, my father, I will find you a place," he answered.

Then I called a message to the soldiers who followed me, saying:--

"Tell this to the king: that he has done ill to drive me from him, for
I, Mopo, set him on the throne and I alone can hold him there. Tell him
this also, that he will do yet worse to seek me where I am, for that
day when we are once more face to face shall be his day of death. Thus
speaks Mopo the inyanga, Mopo the doctor, who never yet prophesied that
which should not be."

Then we marched from the kraal Umgugundhlovu, and when next I saw that
kraal it was to burn all of it which Dingaan had left unburnt, and when
next I saw Dingaan--ah! that is to be told of, my father.

We marched from the kraal, none hindering us, for there were none
to hinder, and after we had gone a little way Umslopogaas halted and
said:--

"Now it is in my mind to return whence we came