this sister of yours and snatch her from the caves of
the Halakazi."

Now the desire of this wolf-life had entered into the heart of
Umslopogaas, and he said that it should be so, and on the morrow they
made them blood-brethren, to be one till death, before all the company
of ghost-wolves, and the wolves howled when they smelt the blood of men.
In all things thenceforth these two were equal, and the ghost-wolves
hearkened to the voice of both of them. And on many a moonlight night
they and the wolves hunted together, winning their food. At times they
crossed the river, hunting in the plains, for game was scarce on the
mountain, and the people of the kraal would come out, hearing the mighty
howling, and watch the pack sweep across the veldt, and with them a man
or men. Then they would say that the ghosts were abroad and creep into
their huts shivering with fear. But as yet the Wolf-Brethren and their
pack killed no men, but game only, or, at times, elephants and lions.

Now when Umslopogaas had abode some moons in the Witch Mountain, on a
night he dreamed of Nada, and awakening soft at heart, bethought himself
that he would learn tidings concerning me, his father, Mopo, and what
had befallen me and her whom he deemed his mother, and Nada, his sister,
and his other brethren. So he clothed himself, hiding his nakedness,
and, leaving Galazi, descended to that kraal where the old woman had
dwelt, and there gave it out that he was a young man, a chief's son from
a far place, who sought a wife. The people of the kraal listened to him,
though they held that his look was fierce and wild, and one asked if
this were Galazi the Wolf, Galazi the Wizard. But another answered that
this was not Galazi, for their eyes had seen him. Umslopogaas said that
he knew nothing of Galazi, and little of wolves, and lo! while he spoke
there came an impi of fifty men and entered the kraal. Umslopogaas
looked at the leaders of the impi and knew them for captains of Chaka.
At first he would have spoken to them, but his Ehlose bade him hold his
peace. So he sat in a corner of the big hut and listened. Presently the
headman of the kraal, who trembled with fear, for he believed that
the impi had been sent to destroy him and all that were his, asked the
captain what was his will.

"A little matter, and a vain," said the captain. "We are sent by the
king to search for a certain youth, Umslopogaas, the son of Mopo, the
king's doctor. Mopo gave it out tha