uance of the plot we had laid together
previously. She looked at me, and her face was full of admiration, of
awe at my daring.

"`You are indeed great, Untuswa, and dare all things,' she said. But
still she shook her head. Things were different now. The King had
taken her.

"Then I reminded her of her prediction, that I should one day do great
things, and that I meant to do them. Still she said that we had better
speak with each other no more, lest we both lost our lives, for in a
matter such as this the King would be merciless.

"`Attend now, Nangeza!' I said at last, when we had talked for as long
as we dared. `I have served the King well, and he has requited me ill.
Now I will bear it no longer. I will leave, and seek out some other
tribe beyond the mountains or elsewhere, and of that tribe I will make
myself chief. And you shall accompany me. So shall the plan you
proposed but a short while back find fulfilment.'

"`Are you going to move the world, Untuswa?' she asked, laughing.

"`I will do great things,' I answered. `How many tales have we among
the people about men like myself who have made themselves into chiefs
and kings! Well now, let us throw our lives into the venture, and
strike a blow to be great or to fall in the attempt.'

"`We are very much more likely to do the last, Untuswa,' she said,
laughing again.

"Now, when I looked at her I felt as though I would dare anything. She
looked finer, handsomer than ever, and, being one of the King's girls,
had begun to do her hair up into the reddened cone, such as our married
women wear, and which corresponds to our head-ring. This added to her
height, and as I stood there I vowed she looked every inch an
_inkosikazi_, and swore that she should certainly be one, did she but
trust herself to me. And, although she laughed and shook her head, I
knew that the thought, once implanted in her mind, would obtain firm
root, for she was full of daring and ambition. Then we bade each other
farewell.

"After this meeting with Nangeza all manner of wild and ambitious plans
took possession of my mind. I pictured to myself strange tribes among
whom I would arrive, and to whom my prowess and valour should ensure me
a welcome. Then I would seize the chieftainship, and federate a great
nation, even as Tshaka had done, and Nangeza should help me to rule it.
Day and night this idea was before me--by day I thought on it, by night
I dreamed of it. But I did