"NADA, THE LILY,"

doubt and fear, for it was far for an un aided maid to travel to the Ghost mountain, Yet all this while I said nothing to him of the truth as to his birth. Still I knew that the hour had now come when I must speak, for it was m my mind to bring it about that Ur n should be proclaimed aloud the son of Chaka and be made king of the Zulus m the place of Dingaan. Had I known that I&nslopogaas still lived when I slew Chaka then methinka that I could have brought it about that he Bhouldbe king. Or had things fallen out as I planned and the Lily maid been brought to Dingaan and Umslopogaas grown great m his sight, then perchance I could have brought it about. But the Lily was none other than Nada, and how might Umslopogaas give Nada, whom he thought his sister and who was my daughter, to Dingaan against her will? Also because of Nada Din gaan and Umslopogaas were now at bifc ter enmity, and for this same cause I was now disgraced and a fugitive. Now, as we drew near the kraal all the women and children came out to greet us, headed by Zinita, wife of Um slopogaas. Umslopogaas greeted Zinita well, and yet I thought there was something lack ing. At first she spoke to him kindly, but when she learned all that had oome to pass her words were not kind. I was silent till she had finished and Umslopogaas also was silent "Peace, woman!" I said at length. "Talk not ill of those who are wise and who had seen much before you were born." "Talk not ill of him who is my father," growled Umslopogaas. "Aye, though you knew it not, this Mouth whom you revile is Umbova, my father." "Then there is ft man among the People of the Ax who has a fool for a father. Of all tidings this is the worst." "There is a man among the People of the Ax who has a jade and a scold for a wife," said Umslopogaas, springing up. "Begone, Zinita, and know this, that if I hear you speak more such words of him who is my father you shall go further than your own hut, for I will put you away and drive you from my kraal. I have suffered you too long," "I go," said Zinita. "Oh, lam well served t I made you chief and now you threaten to put me away." "It was my own hands that made me chief," said Umslopogaas, and thrust her from the hut "It is an ill thing to be wedded to such a woman, my father," he said pres ently. Now, for awhile we eat Bilent and alone m the hut, and as we eat me thought I heard a rat stir m the thatch. Then I spoke, "Umslopogaas, at length the hour has come that I should whisper somewhat into your hear a word that 1 have held secret since you were born." "Speak on, my father," he said, won dering. 1 crept to the door of the hut and looked out The night was dark, and 1 could see none about and could hear none move, yet, being cautious, 1 walked around the hut. Had I not been a fool 1 should have searched out that rat m the thatch before ever I opened my lips, for the rat was Zinita, my father—Zinita, who had climbed the hut and now lay there m the dark, her ear upon the smokehole, hearkening to every word that passed. So, having searched and found noth ing, I spoke to Umslopogaas, my foster ling, little knowing that Death m a wom an's shape lay on the hut above us. "Hearken," 1 said. "You are no son of mine, Umslopogaas, though you have called me father from a babe. You spring from a loftier stock, Slaughterer." "Yet I was well pleased with my fath ering, old man," said Umslopogaas. "The breed is good enough for me. Say, then, whose son am I?" Now I bent forward and whispered to him—yet, alas! not low enough, "You are the son of the Black One, who is dead —yea, sprung from the loins of Chako and of Baleka my sister." "I still have some part m your blood then, Umbova, and that I am glad of. Wowt Who would have guessed that 1 was the son of that silwana, of that hyena man! For this reason, perchance, it is that, like Galazi, 1 love the company of the wolves, though no love grows m my heart for my father or any of his house." "You have little cause to love him, Umslopogaas, for he slew your mother, Baleka, and would have slain you also ( had it not been for me. Yet you are the son of Chaka and of no other man." "Well, his eyes must be keen, indeed, my uncle, who can pick his own father out of a crowd. And yet I once heard this tale before, though 1 had long ago forgotten it." "From whom did you hear it, Umslop ogaas? An hour since it was known to one alone—the others are dead who knew it. Now it i» known to two (ah! my father, I wotted not of the third). From whom, then, did you hear it?" "It was from the dead—at least, Galazi the Wolf heard it from the Dead One who sat m the cave on Ghost mountain, for the Dead One told him that a man should come to be his brother who should be named Umslopogaaa Bulalio, son of Chaka, and he told it to me, but I had long forgotten it." "It seems that there is wisdom m the dead," I answered, "for 10l today you are named Umslopogaas Bulalio, and today I declare you the son of Chaka But listen to my tale." Then I told him all the story from the hour of his birth onward, and when 1 spoke of the words of his mother Baleka, after I had told my dream to her, and of the manner of her death by the command of Chaka, and of the great fashion m which she had died, then I say Umslopo gaas wept, whom I think seldom wept be fore or after. But as my tale grew to its end I saw that he listened ill, as a man listens who has a weightier matter pressing on his heart, and before it was well done he broke m: "So, Umbova, my tmcle, if I be son of Chaka and Baleka, Nada the Lily is no ' Bister to me." "Nay, Umslopogaas, she is but thy

cousin." "Over near of blood," he said, "yet

that shall not stand between us," and his face grew glad. I looked at him m question. "You grow dull, my uncle. This is my meaning, that I will wed Nada if she yet lives, for it comes upon me now that I have never loved any woman as I love Nada the Lily," and as he spoke once i more I heard the rat stk m the thatch of the hut. "Wed her if you will, Umslopogaas, , I answered, "yet methinks one Zinita, your Inkosikazi, will find words to say m the matter." "Zinita is my head wife, indeed, but lhall she hold me back from taking other wives after the lawful custom of our people?" he asked angrily. "The custom is lawful and good," 1 said, "yet it has bred trouble at times. Zinita can have little to say if she still continues m her place and you still love her as of old. But enough of her—Nada ia not yet at your gates, and perchance she shall never find them. See, Um slopogaas, this is m my mind, that you should rule m Zululand by right of blood, and though things point other wise, yet I think a way shall be found to bring it about." "How so?" he asked. "Thus: Many of the great chiefs who are known to me hate Dingaan and fear him, and did they know that a son of Chaka lived, and that son the Slaugh terer, he well might climb to the throne upon their shoulders. Also, the soldiers love the name of Chaka, though he dealt evilly, with them, because at least he was brave and generous. But they do not love Dingaan, for his burdens are the burdens of Chaka, but his gifts are the gifts of Dingaan. Therefore they would welcome Chaka's son if once they knew him for certain. But it is here that the necklet chafes, for there is but my word to prove it. Yet I will try." "Perchance it is worth trying and per chance it ia not, my uncle," answered Umslopogaas. "One thing I know—l had rather see Nada at my gates tonight than hear all the chiefs m the land cry ing, 'Hail, O king!*" # You shall live to think otherwise, Uin slopogaas. ________

I CHAPTER XXVHI, I THE COMING OF NADA,

One night—it was a night of full moon —I sat alone with Umslopogaas mmy hnt and we spoke of the matter of our plots; then when we had finished it we spoke of Nada the Lily. "AJasl my uncle," said Umslopogaas sadly, "we shall never look more on Nada; she is snrely dead or m bonds, otherwise she had been here long ago." "All that is hidden is not lost," I an swered. Then we were silent awhile, and pres ently m the silence a dog barked. We rose and crept out of the hut to see what it might be that stirred, for the night drew on and it was needful to be wary, since a dog might bark at the stirring of a leaf or, perchance, it might be the distant footfall of an impi that it heard. We had not far to look, for standing gazing on the huts as one who is afraid to call was a man, tall and slim, holding an assegai m one hand and a little shield m the other. We could not see the face of the man, because the light was behind him and a ragged blanket hung about his shoulders. Also he was footsore, for he rested on one leg. Now, we were peering around the hut, and its shadow hid us, so that the man saw nothing. For awhile he stood still—then he spoke to himself, and his voice was strangely soft. "Here are many huts," said the voice. "Now how may I know which is the hut of my brother? Perchance if I call I shall bring soldiers to me and be forced to play the man before them, and of that lam weary. Well, I will lie here under the fence till morning. It is a softer bed than some I have found, and I am foredone with travel. Sleep I must," and the figure sighed and turned so that the light of the moon fell full upon its face. My father, it was the face of Nada, my daughter, whom I had not seen for so many years, yet across the years I! knew it at once—yes, though the bud j had become the flower I knew it. The face was weary and worn, but, ah! it was beautiful. Never before nor since have I seen such beauty, for there was this about the loveliness of my daughter the Lily, it seemed to flow from within— yes, as light will flow through the thin rind of a gourd—and m that she differed from the other women of our people, who when they are fair are fair with the flesh alone. Now my heart went out to Nada as she stood m the moonlight, one for saken, not having where to lay her head—Nada, who alone was left of all my children. I motioned to Umslopo gaas to hide himself m the 6hadow and stepped forward. "Hoi" I said roughly, "who are you, wanderer, and what do you here?" Now Nada started like a frightened bird, but quickly gathered up her thoughts and turned upon me m a lordly way. "Who are you that ask me?" she said, feigning a man's voice. "One that can use a stick upon thieves and night prowlers, boy. Come, show your business or be moving. You are not of this people, surely; that moocha is of a Swazi make, and here we do not love Swazis." "Were you not old I would beat you for your insolence," said Nada, striving to look brave and all the while searching a way to escape. "Also I have no stick

—only a spear, and that is for warriors, not for an old umfagozan like you." Aye, my father, I lived to hear my daughter name xne an umfagozan, a low fellowl Now, making pretense to be angry, l leaped at her with my kerrie up, and for getting her courage she dropped her spear and uttered a little scream. But she still held the shield before her face. I seized her by the arm and struck a blow upon the shield with my kerrie—it would scarce have crushed a fly, but this brave warrior trembled sorely. "Where now is your valor, you who name me umfagozan?" I said, "you who cry like a maid and whose arm is soft as r maid's." She made no answer, but hngged her tattered blanket around her, and shifting my grip from her arm I seized it and | rent-it, showing her breast and shoulder —then I let her go, laughing, and said: "Lo! here is the warrior who would beat an old umfagozan for his insolence —a warrior well shaped for war. Now my pretty maid, who wander^ at night m the garden of a man, what tale have you to tell? Swift with it lest I drag you to the chief aa bis prize. 'The old j man seeks a new wife, they tell me." Now when Nada saw that I had dis covered her she threw down the shield after the spear as a thing that was of no more avail and hung her head sullenly. But when I spoke of dragging her to the chief then she flung herself upon the ground and clasped my knees, for since I called him old she thought that this chief could not be Umslopogaas. "Oh, my father," said the Lily, "oh, my father, have pity on me; yes, yes! I am a girl—a girl, no wife—and you who I are old—you, perchance, have daughters such as I, and m their name I ask for pity. My father, I have journeyed far i —I have endured many things—to find my way to a kraal where my brother rules, and now it seems that I have come to the wrong kraal. Forgive me that 1 spoke to you so, my father; it was biit a woman's feint, and I was sore pressed to hide my sex, for, my father, you know it is ill to be a lonely girl among strange men." . Now I said no word m answer for this reason only, that when I heard Nada call me father, not knowing me, and saw her clasp my knees and pray to me m my daughter's name I, who was child less save for her, went nigh to weeping. But she thought that I did not answer because I was angry and about to drag her to this unknown chief and prayed I the more, even with tears. "My father," she said, "do not this wicked thing by me; let me go and show me the path that I shall ask, you who are old; you know that I am too fair to be dragged before this chief of yours. Hearken! all I knew are slain; I am alone save for this brother whom 1 seek. Oh, if you betray me may such a fate fall upon your own daughter also; may she also know the day of slavery and the love that she wills not," and she ceased, sobbing. Now I turned my head and spoke to ward the hut. "Chief," 1 said, "your Ehlose is kind to you tonight, for he has given you a maid fair as the Lily of the Halakazi." (Here Nada glanced up wild ly.) "Come, then, and take the girl." Now Nada turned to snatch up the assegai from the ground, but whether to slay me or the chief she feared so much or herself that I know not; and as she turned m her woe she called upon the name of Umslopogaas. She found the assegai and straightened herself again, and lo! there before her stood a mighty man leaning on an ax, but the old man who had threatened her, he was gone—not very far, m truth, but around the corner of the hut. Now Nada the Lily looked, then rubbed her eyes and looked again. "Surely I dream," she said at last. "But now I spoke to an old man, and m his place there stands before me the shape of one 1 desire to see." "Methought, maiden, that the voice of a certain Nada called upon one Um slopogaas," said he who leaned upon the ax. "Aye, I called, but where is the old man who treated me so ill? Nay, what does it matter where ho is—there let him stop. At least you are Umslopogaas, my brother, or should be by your great ness and the ax. To the man I cannot altogether swear m this light, but to the ax I can swear, for once it passed so very near my eyes." Thus she spoke on, gaining time, and all the while she watched Umslopogaas till she was sure that it was ho and no other. Then Bhe made an end of talk, and flinging herself on him she kissed him. "Now I trust that Zinita sleeps sound," murmured Umslopogaas, for suddenly he remembered that Nada was no sister to him as she deemed. Nevertheless he took her by the hand and said, "Enter, sister; of all maidens m the world you are the most welcome I here, for know, I thought you dead." But I, Urnbova, ran into the hut be fore her, and when she entered she found me sitting by the fire. "Now here, my brother," said Nada, pointing at me with her finger, "here is that old umfagozan—that low fellow who, unless I dr»amed but a very little while ago, wrought shame upon me; aye, my brother, he smote me, a maid, with his kerrie, and that only because 1 said that I would stab him for his inso lence, and he did worse—he swore that he would drag me to some old chief of bis to be a gift to him, and that he was about to do had you not come. Will you suffer these things to go unpunished, my brother?" Now Umslopogaas smiled grimly and I made answer: "What was it that you called me just now, Nada, when you prayed me to pro tect you? Father, was it not?" and 1 turned my face toward the blaze of the fire so that the full light fell upon it. "Yes, I called you father, old man; it is not strange, for a homeless wanderer must find fathers where she can, and yet!—no, it cannot be—so changed, and that scar! And yet—oh, who are you? Once there was a man named Umbova, and he had a little daughter and she was named Nada. Oh, my father, my father, I know you nowF

"Aye, Nada, and I knew you from the first; through all your man's wrappings I knew you after these many years." So she fell upon my neck and sobbed there, and I remember that I also wept. Now when she had sobbed her fill of joy, Umslopogaas brought Nada the Lily maas to eat and mealie porridge; she ate of the curdled milk, but of the porridge she would not eat, saying that she was too weary. Then she told us all the tale of her wanderings since she had fled away from the side of Umslopogaas at the strong hold of the Halakazi, and it waa long so long that 1 will not repeat it, for it is a story by itself. Now when Nada had made an end of her tale, Umslopogaas told his of how things had gone with Dingaan. When he told her of how he had given the body of the girl to the king, saying that it was the Lily's stalk, she said that it waa well done, and when he told of the slay ing of the taraitor she clapped her hands, though she, whose heart was gentle, did not love to hear of deeds of death. At last he finished, and she was somewhat sad and said that it seemed that her fate followed her, and that now the People of the Ax were m danger at the hands of Dingaan because of her. "Ah, my brother!" she cried, catching Umslopogaas by the hand; "it were bet ter that I should die than that I should bring evil upon you also." "That would not mend matters, Nada," he answered, "for whether you be dead or alive the hate of Dingaan is already earned. Also, Nada, know this, I am not your brother." When'the Lily heard these words she uttered a little cry, and letting fall the hand of Umslopogaas clasped mine, shrinking up against me. "What is this tale, father?" she asked. "He who was my twin, he with whom 1 was bred up, says that he has deceived me these many years, that he is not my brother; who, then, is he, father?" "He is your cousin, Nada." "Ah!" she answered, "I am glad; it would have grieved me had he whom I have loved been shown to be but a stranger m whom I have no part," and she smiled a little m the eyes and at the corners of her mouth. "But tell me this tale also." So I told her the story of the birth of Umslopogaas, for I trusted her. "Ah!" she said when I had finished, "aht you come of a bad stock, Umslopo gaas, though it be a kingly one. I shall love you little henceforth, child of the hyena man." "Then that is ill news," said Umslopo i gaas, "for know, Nada, lam now minded that-you should love me more than ever —that you should be my wife and lova me as your husband." Now the Lily's face grew sad and sweet and all the hidden mockery went out of her talk (for ever Nada loved to mock). "Did you not speak to me on that I night m the Halakazi caves, Umslopo gaas—did you not speak to me of one Zinita, who is your wife and inkosikaas of the People of the Ax?" Now the brow of Umslopogaas dark ened. "What of Zinita?" he said. "It is true she is my chieftainess. Is it not allowed to a man to take more than one wife?" "So I trust," answered Nada, smiling, "else men would go unwed for long, for few maids would take them who then must labor all their days. But, Um slopogaas, if there be twenty wives yet one must be first. Now this has come about hitherto, that wherever I have been it has been thrust upon rae to be first, and perchance it might come about once more —what then, Umslopogaas?" "Let the fruit ripen before you pluck it, Nada," he answered. "If you love me and will wed me it is enough." "I pray that it may not be more than enough," she said, stretching out her hand to him. "Listen, Umslopogaas; ask of my father here what were the words I spoke to him many years ago, before I was yet a woman, when with my mother, Macropha, I left him to go among the Swazi people. It was after you had been borne away by the lion, Umslopogaas. I told my father that I would wed no man all my life, because I loved only you, who were dead. My father reproached me, saying that I must not speak thus of my brother, but it was my heart that spoke, and it spoke truly, for see, Umslopogaas, you are no brother to me. I have kept that vow. How many men have sought me m marriage since I became a woman, Umslopogaas? I tell you that they are as the leaves upon a tree. Yet I have given myself to none, and this has been my fortune, that none have sought to constrain me to marriage. Now I have my reward, for he whom I lost is found again, and to him alone I give my love. Yet, Um slopogaas, beware! Little luck has come to those who have loved me m the past -—no, not even to those who have but Bought to look on me." "I will bear the risk, Nada," he an swered, and gathering her to his great breast he kissed her soft and sweet. Presently she slipped from his arms and bade him be gone, for she was weary and would rest. So he went. _ CHAPTER XXIX. THE WAB OF THE WOMEN,

' Now on the morrow at daybreak I went to lead Nada to the place of assembly and found her waiting me. She was dressed now m some woman's garments that I had brought her, her curling hair fell upon her shoulders, on her wrist and neck and knee were brace lets of ivory, and m her hand she bore a

"Can U then be that Bulalio loves you I better than us, Nadat" 1

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G. MEDDINS, (LATE W. CONGREVE'S. THE PEOPLE'S IRONMONGER. -—CONSEQUENTLY THE CHEAPEST- ■ HAS the following New Seasonable Goods just opened at prioea that defy legitimate competition:— SHEEP SHEARS SHEEP SHEAKS. The Celebrated LIT. 8 and 18.8.A. TURKEY OIL STONES .—Keal Beautiea. LAWN MOWERS ! LAWN MOWERS ! " New Easy," •• Crescent," " Philadelphia,"^and "Carbine^ " JAPANNED TRUNKS." For the Million. Colonial Made* Good and strong. BURNETT STREET, Opposite Artade,



PUBLIC NOTIOBS ~RIMOVAL NOTICE. T^ITKING Building Operations I have REMOVED to Tempor ary Premises, next the Ashbur ton Club and M.S.A. R. J.~GUY, SADDLE U, BURN: TT STREET, ASHBURTON. T. H. UKDBIU. t [g./.OSDBIIi T H UNDKILL AhO CO., XnURNISHING UNDERTAKERS. i? URNISHING UNDERTAKERS TANGRED STREET, ASHBURTON BVERY REQUISITE ON HAND.; Fohshed Coffins a Specialty. A Choice Assortment of Artificial Wreaths a Sleek. Private Address, Peter Street, directly behind Oddfellows' Hall; also care oi Mr T. Andrewi, East Bell;. I HARDLEY BROS. TTAVR }«»'' opened op their newly imported Stock of Fishing* Tackle. FLIES, MINNOWS, TRACES, LINKS, GAFF HOOKS, RODS,' IN 3KEAT VARIETY. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Garden Tools AT PRICES THAT DEFY OOMP ETITIO Pi.cmjbbs, Tinsmiths, & Gasfitters. Hot and cold water laid on? at the shortest} notice.^. A LARGE STOCK OF TANKS, BATHS, SINKS, FUMPS,. Fiu TO SELECT^ ROM.] ESTIMATES GIVEN WITH PLEASURE HARDLEY Bros. TO ALL MY OLD CLTENTS FARMERS, AND RESIDENTS OF ASHBURTON COUNTY. I BEG to inform you that 1 have severer! my connnotion with the Canterbury Mill, whi)h «a^ mirier my management for over seven years, and hava PURCHASED from Mr Edwin Thomas the WAKAN'UI ROLLER FLOUR MILLS. The C*n'erl»iry Mill, which is the oroprtty »f thn Jliok of Now Zealand Assets Boanl, i* htiil irttding under the name of Rollitt & Co., so to avoid confusion with oorrflßponderjce, I would like to ask you to address aIS orders to THOMAS ROLLITT, ■WAKVNUI HOLLER FLOUR MIt.LS, ASHBUK'ION On and after October lat, I shall be pleased to supply you with first-class ROLLER FLOUR, WHEAT MEAL,BRAN & SHARPS, at lowest current rates. FOR THECONVENIENCE OF FARMERS DOING GRISTING, 2 have arraDßod to keep a supply of Flour, Bran, and Sharps at the Stores of the NZ Farmers' Association, West Street, where F^rmerr, Shareholders or non-Shareholders, o*n It-aye their Wheat and get Flour, Br*n, Hiid Sharps m exchange, THOMAS ROLLITT. WAX 4NUI ROLLER FLOUR MILLS, 0 285 ASHBURTON. MRS R. Jt HUGHES^ Certificated Ladies' Nurso, takes m accouche meat cases »t her residence, Triangle, Ashbnrton. Every care and attention tven. 3 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP* rjIHE Partnership hitherto existing JL between Hsnby Barrett and Hubert Chablks Barrett, carrying on Business as Drapers, Clothiers, ec, at "The Hall," East) Btreet, Aahburton, has been DIS SOLVED by mutual consent, as from the 20th SEPTEMBER, 1899, H. 0. Barrett will carry on the Business m the same Pre mises, and respectfully requests all accounts owing; to the Firm to be paid to him there It will be hiß endeavour by careful attention fco the requirements of customers, to keep up the reputation of fehe late firm, and merit a continuance of the favors they have received m the pant, and for which they tender aiucero thanks. Sinned-— HENRY BARRETT. HUBERT CHARLES BARRETT. Ashburto .October 4, 1899. NEW STRAWS, Flowers, Ribbons, Ruchings, Glovep, Veilings, Laces, Mnslins, Print?, Embroideries, Calicoes, Flannelettes, Dress Goods, and lovely Summer Capes and Jackets now to hand. The making of Underclothing, Pinafores, Aprons, Sun Bonnets, and Dresses still receives first attention at Mrs Aloobn's. ICYCLE for Sale, very Cheap^Good atoood-hand Safety Bicyole, m first «1»«* order.—Apply this office.