lf of the army became greater, so far from
beginning to think less of Lalusini I thought of her more. In the
sunshine, darting in gold through the forest trees, it seemed that I
could see her eyes, in the soft whispers of the wind at evening I could
hear her voice. In my dreams I beheld her, was with her. _Au_! I was
bewitched indeed. But although I made more than one journey again to
the mountain of death, never did I discover any sign which should show
she had revisited her hiding-place. All there had fallen more and more
into decay, as though she had gone never to return.

"Of a truth, Untuswa, thou shouldst be an _isanusi_ thyself," said the
King one day when we were sitting alone together in debate. "Thou hast
a gift for finding _izanusi_ and bringing them hither--first Masuka, now
this white stranger; concerning which last my mind is in darkness, for I
know not what to do with him."

"Is he not content, Black Elephant? Does he not fare well among us,
teaching those who care to listen--ah, ah! those who care to listen?" I
added with meaning.

"For a time yes," said Umzilikazi. "But the day will come when he will
desire to travel again."

"Let him travel back by the way he came, Calf of a Black Cow," I
answered, still with meaning. "For him the way of the South is not
safe. There indeed are peoples that would do him harm."

The Great Great One shook his head in discontent.

"Verily, Untuswa, I know not how this will end," he said.

"Let be for the present, my father," I answered. "The stranger is happy
now, teaching the slaves. It may be that things will right themselves
in this matter."

I spoke darkly, _Nkose_, not seeing light. But both I and the Great
Great One little guessed in what manner things would right themselves,
and that at no great distance of time--ah, no! little could we we
foresee that.

Now this was the meaning which underlay my words relating to the white
_isanusi_ and his teaching of the slaves. The last thing the King
desired was that this white man should journey South, to bear, mayhap,
the word to the Amabuna or to Dingane: "Yonder, to the North, in a fair
and well-watered land, dwells Umzilikazi, and his warriors number so
many, of whom a large proportion are of no account--being dogs and
slaves." The white stranger and the Gaza, Ngubazana, were but two men:
what easier than to kill them secretly and thus end all trouble? There
were not wanting some among the _izi