her. But none were here who had lived in
the kraal Duguza, none knew, in Zweete the blind old witch-doctor, that
Mopo who stabbed Chaka, the Lion of the Zulu. None know it now. You have
heard the tale, and you alone, my father. Do not tell it again till I am
dead.

Umslopogaas? Yes, he went back to the People of the Axe and ruled them,
but they were never so strong again as they had been before they smote
the Halakazi in their caves, and Dingaan ate them up. Panda let him be
and liked him well, for Panda did not know that the Slaughterer was son
to Chaka his brother, and Umslopogaas let that dog lie, for when Nada
died he lost his desire to be great. Yet he became captain of the
Nkomabakosi regiment, and fought in many battles, doing mighty deeds,
and stood by Umbulazi, son of Panda, in the great fray on the Tugela,
when Cetywayo slew his brother Umbulazi.

After that also he plotted against Cetywayo, whom he hated, and had it
not been for a certain white man, a hunter named Macumazahn, Umslopogaas
would have been killed. But the white man saved him by his wit. Yes, and
at times he came to visit me, for he still loved me as of old; but now
he has fled north, and I shall hear his voice no more. Nay, I do not
know all the tale; there was a woman in it. Women were ever the bane
of Umslopogaas, my fostering. I forget the story of that woman, for I
remember only these things that happened long ago, before I grew very
old.

Look on this right hand of mine, my father! I cannot see it now; and
yet I, Mopo, son of Makedama, seem to see it as once I saw, red with the
blood of two kings. Look on--

Suddenly the old man ceased, his head fell forward upon his withered
breast. When the White Man to whom he told this story lifted it and
looked at him, he was dead!

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