fear, but Umslopogaas and Galazi dragged
her on. They rushed at the blazing fence, smiting with axe and club. It
broke before them, they were through but little harmed. Without were a
knot of the Slayers, standing back a small space because of the heat of
the flames. The Slayers saw them, and crying, "This is Bulalio, kill the
wizard!" sprang towards them with uplifted spears. Now the People of the
Axe made a ring round Nada, and in the front of it were Umslopogaas
and Galazi. Then they rushed on and met those of the Slayers who stood
before them, and the men of Dingaan were swept away and scattered by
Groan-Maker and the Watcher, as dust is swept of a wind, as grass is
swept by a sickle.

They were through with only one man slain, but the cry went up that the
chief of the wizards and the Lily, his wife, had fled. Then, as it was
these whom he was chiefly charged to kill, the captain called off the
impi from watching for the dwellers in the town, and started in pursuit
of Umslopogaas. Now, at this time nearly a hundred men of the People of
the Axe had been killed and of the Slayers some fifty men, for, having
been awakened by the crying of Galazi, the soldiers of the axe fought
bravely, though none saw where his brother stood, and none knew whither
their chief had fled except those ten who went with the brethren.

Meanwhile, the Wolf-Brethren and those with them were well away, and it
had been easy for them to escape, who were the swiftest-footed of any in
the land. But the pace of a regiment is the pace of its slowest-footed
soldier, and Nada could not run with the Wolf-Brethren. Yet they made
good speed, and were halfway down the gorge that led to the river before
the companies of Dingaan poured into it. Now they came to the end of it,
and the foe was near--this end of the gorge is narrow, my father, like
the neck of a gourd--then Galazi stopped and spoke:--

"Halt! ye People of the Axe," he said, "and let us talk awhile with
these who follow till we get our breath again. But you, my brother, pass
the river with the Lily in your hand. We will join you in the forest;
but if perchance we cannot find you, you know what must be done: set
the Lily in the cave, then return and call up the grey impi. Wow! my
brother, I must find you if I may, for if these men of Dingaan have a
mind for sport there shall be such a hunting on the Ghost Mountain as
the old Witch has not seen. Go now, my brother!"

"It is not my way to turn