THE NADA LILY

In bitter woe; and w« rushed after the I lioness, shouting. For a moment she stood over her dead cubs, Umslopogaas hanging from her mouth, and looking at them as though she wondered; and we hoped that she might let him fall. Then, hearing our I cries, she turned and bounded away to j ward the bush, bearing Umslopogaas m her mouth. We seized our spears and followed; but soon the ground grew stony, and search as we would we could find no trace of Umslopogaas or the lioness. "Where is my brother?" cried Nada when we came back. "Lost!" I answered. "Lost, never to | be found again!" # j Then the girl gave a great and bitter j cry, and fell to the earth, saying, "I would that I were dead with my brother!" i "Let us be going," said Macropha, my wife. "Have you then no tears to weep for your son?" asked a man of our company. "What is the use of weeping over the dead? Does it, then, bring them back?" i she answered. "Let us be going!" The man thought these words strange, but he did not know that Umslopogaas was not born of Maeropha. And so the time went on till we reached the kraal where I and my wife should part. On the morning after we came to the kraal, having kissed m secret, though outwardly we looked sullenly on one an other, we parted as those part who meet no more. And I drew Nada aside and spoke to her thus: "We part, my daugh ter, nor do I know when we shall meet again, for the times are troubled, and it is for your safety and that of your moth er that I rob my eyes of the sight of you. Nada, you will soon be a woman, and you will be fairer than any woman among our people, and it will come about that many great men will seek you m marriage, and perhaps that 1, your father, shall not be there to choose for *fou whom you shall wed, according to the custom of our land. But this 1 charge you: So far as maybe possible for you to do so, take only a man whom you can love, and be faithful to him alone, for so shall a woman find happi ness." Here I stopped, for the girl took hold of my hand and looked into my face. "Peace, my father," she said; "do not speak to me of marriage, for I will wed no man, now that Umslopogaas is dead because of my foolishness. I will live and die alone, and, oh, may I die quickly, that I may go to seek him whom alone 1 lovei" "Nay, Nada, Umslopogaas was your brother, and it is not fitting that you should speak of him thus, even though he is dead." "Of such matters I know nothing, my father," she said. "I speak what my heart tells me, and it tells me that 1 loved Umslopogaas only living, and though he is dead I shall love him only to the end." Now, I upbraided the girl no more, because I knew that Umslopogaas was not her brother. Only I marveled that the voice of nature should speak so truly m her, telling her that which was law ful, even when it seemed to be most un lawful. "Speak no more of Umslopogaas," 1 said, "for surely he is dead, and though you may not forget him yet speak of him no more, and I pray this of you, my daughter, that if we do not meet again yet you should keep me m your mind, and the love I bear you, and the words that from time to time I have said to you." Then we kissed and parted.

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ears of Chaka, by the mouth of his spies, j that my second wife—Anadi—was sick; and spoke strange words m her sickness. Then, taking three soldiers with him, he went to my kraal at the death of the day. At the gates of the kraal he left the three soldiers, bidding them to suffer none to come m or go out, but he himself entered the large hut where Anadi lay sick, having his toy assegai, with the shaft of the royal redwood, m his hand. Now, as it chanced, m the hut were Unandi, the mother of Chaka, and Ba leka, my sister, the wife of Chaka, for not knowing that I had taken away Umslopogaas, the son of Baleka, accord ing to their custom these two foolish ones had come to kiss and fondle the lad. But when they entered the hut they found it full of my other wives and chil dren. These they sent away, all except Moosa, the son of Anadi, who lay sick that boy who was bom eight days before Umslopogaas, the son of Chaka. Him they kept m the hut and kissed him, giv ing him imphi [a variety of sugar cane] to eat, and they did this fearing lest it should seem strange to the women, my wives, if, Umslopogaas being gone, they would take notice of no other child. Now, as they sat thus, presently the doorway was darkened, and behold! the king himself crept through it and saw them fondling the child Moosa. When they knew who it was that entered the women flung themselves upon the ground and he bade them be seated. Then he spoke, saying: "You wonder why it ia that I come here into the hut of Mopo. I will tell you; it is because he is away ! upon my business, and I hear that his wife Anadi is sick. Therefore, as the first doctor m the land, I am come to cure her." Thus he spoke, and though his worda were gentle they shook with- fear, for when Chaka spoke thus gently he meant death to many. But Unandi answered, saying that it was good that the king had come, since his medicine would bring rest and peace to her who lay sick. "Yes," he answered; "it is good. It is pleasant, moreover, my mother and my sister, to see you kissing yonder child. Surely, were he of your own blood you could not love him more." Now they trembled again and prayed m their hearts that Anadi, the sick woman, who lay asleep, might not wake and utter foolish words m her wander ings. But Anadi woke, and hearing the voice of the king, her sick mind flew to him whom she believed to be the king's child. "Ah!" she said, sitting upon the ground and pointing to her own son Moosa, "Kiss him, Mother of the Heavens, kiss him! Whom do they call him, the young cub who brings ill fortune to our doors? They call him son of Mopo and Macro pha!" and she laughed wildly and sank back upon the bed. "They call him son of Mopo and Ma- \ cropha," said the king m a low voice, j "Whose son is he, then, woman?" I "Oh, ask her not, O king?" cried hia mother and his wife, "She is bewitched, and lias dreams and fancies." "Peace!" he answered. "1 would lis ten to this woman's wanderings. Who then is he, woman?" "Who is he?" she answered. "Are you then a fool that asks who lie is? He is the son of Chaka and Baleka, the sister of Mopo, whom Unandi, Mother of the Heavens, palmed off upon this house to bring a curse on it, and whom she would lead out before the people when the land is weary of the king, to take the place of the king," "It is false, O king!" cried the two women. "The boy is her own son, Moosa, whom she does not know m her sickness," But Chaka stood up m the hut and laughed terribly. "So this is the trick thou hast played upon me, my mother. Thou wouldst give me a son to kill me. Goodl Mother of the Heavens take thou the doom of the heavens! Die, Unandil —die at the hand thou didst bring forth!" And he lifted the little assegai and smote it through her. For a moment Unandi, Mother of the Heavens, wife of Senzangacona, stood uttering no cry. Then she put up her hand and drew the assegai from her heart. "So shalt thou also die, Chaka the j Eviil" she cried, and fell down dead. Now when Baleka saw what had been done she turned and fled so swiftly that the guards at the gates could not stop her. But when she reached her own hut she fell senseless on the ground. But j the boy Moosa, my son, staid where he ; was, and Chaka, believing him to be his son, murdered him also. Then he stalked out of the hut and commanded a company of soldiers to surround the kraal and fire it. This they did, and as the people rushed out they killed them, and those who did not rush out were burned m the fire. Thus, then, perished all my wives, my chil dren and my servants. Then Chaka sent messengers bidding , them kill Macropha my wife and Nadal r my daughter, and him who was named my son. But they should not slay me, but bring me living before Mm. Now it was my belief that I was saved alive only that I might die later and m a more cruel fashion. Therefore why should I, who was already doomed, wait to meet my doom? In my girdle I carried a secret medicine; he who eate \ of it, my father, will see the sun's shad ow move no more and will never look upon the stars again. Surely now was the time to use it. So I thought, but even as 1 did so I remembered my daughter Nada, who was still left to me, though she sojourn ed m a far country, and my wife Ma cropha and my sister Baleka, who lived yet, so said the soldiers, though how it came about that the king had not killed her I did not know then. Also another | thought was born m my heart. Whil« | life was m me, I might bo revenged i upon him who had wrought me this woe. Time to die when the voice of Ohaka spoke my doom. Not yet would ! I taste of that medicine of mine. So I lived on and the soldiers led- me | back to the kraal of Chaka. Now, when we came to the kraal it was night. Still, as charge had been given him, the captain of those who watched me went m

CHAPTER VIII. THE TRTATi OF MOPO.

Now I sat four days m the huts of the tribe whither I had been sent and did the king's business. And on the fifth morning I rose up, together with those with me, and we turned our faces toward the king's kraal. But when we had journeyed a little way we met a party of soldiers, who commanded us to stand. "What is it, king's men?' I asked boldly. "This, son of Makedama," answered their spokesman; "give over to us your ( wife Macropha, and your children Um slopogaas and Nada, that we may do with them as the king commands." f "For Umslopogaas," I answered, "he has gone where the king's arm cannot stretch, for he is dead; and for my wife Macropha and my daughter Nada, they are by now m the caves of the Swazis, and thither the king must seek them with an army if he will find them. To Macropha he is welcome, for I hate her, and have divorced her; and as for the girl, well, there are many girls and it is no great matter if she lives or dies, yet I pray him to spare her." "You do well to ask the girl's life," said the soldier, laughing, "for all those born to you are dead by order of the king." "Is It indeed so?" I answered calmly, though my knees shook. "The will of the king be done, A cut stick puts out new leaves; I can have more children." "Aye, Mopo; but you must first get new wives, for yours are dead also, all five of them." "Is it indeed so?" I answered. "The king's will be donet I wearied of those brawling women." "So, Mopo," said the soldier; "but to get other wives and have more children born unto you, you yourself must live, for no children are born to the dead, and I think that Chaka has an assegai which you shall kiss." "Is it bo?" I answered. "The king's will be done!" Thus I spoke, and indeed I desired to die. Macropha and Nada were gone, Umslopogaas was dead, and dead were my other ■wives and children. The soldiers asked of those with me if that tale was true which I told of the > death of Umslopogaas and of the going of Macropha and Nada into Swaziland. They said, "Yes, it waa true." Then the soldiers said that they would lead me back to the king. So we went on, and piece by piece I learned what had happened at the king's kraal. J On the day after I left, it camo to the

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN: THUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899.

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LOOK CHEAP WINTER FIRING. NEW MOUNT SOMERS COAL. OUTPUT has Trebled daring the !» twelve months. IT IS USED EVERYWHERE. This Coal is the Best and Cheapest Stoam \nd Household Coal m the market. Ueed m the Woollen Factory and Canto bury Flour MiHe. GIVES SPLENDID RESULTS WRITE FOR PRICES TO G. T, PARK, MOUNT SOMERS.



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J. V. DE BEER, THE LEADING JEWELLER <Sr WATCHMAKER IS NOW SHOWING NEW GOODS- NEW COODf. ALLEGE STOJK of the INewee*-, Brightest, and up-to-date Jewblleby. INSPECT. — INSPECT. All articles markei m Plain Figures. Jnsb received a line of Rothebham's Cblwbratkd English Lkvebs, Mac's Specially to hia order, with Extra Jewels, and very heavy Cases to suit hard wear. A few Ladies' Rolle 1 Gold Watche*", Ten to Twenty Years' Guarantee, very highly recommended. CJcreenstone is now very ashioug able. A new assortment of Choice Design?. SPEGTAOIE3~SPtGfAGUS. A tall Stock of Lenses, on the iuter changeable Bystem. Convex a:.d Concave, both m Blue and White. The Lateab Novelty m Eyeglasses, "THE KifiVUJC." Light and Eaey, will not (all off. SIGHT TESTING A SPECIALTY. REPAIRS Prompb. — REPAIRS Neat. J. V.DEBEER, "(Late S. Salek) EAST STREET. ASHBURTON. NIOW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTOBY.



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OSBOBN COOMBE, PIANO TUNER & EXPERT (Late of London), "TTISITS ABhburton and eurronnding V District* every four months— viz. March, July, and November. ORDERS may be lefts wifcb MR LLEWELLYN OWEN &t Me Music S- fcndio, Arcade Chambers, Aahbnrton, t a Commercial Hotel 1! 25



Djsar Boy,— * ~XTQQZ'™* bkby ! Are yoi bt 11 m&d about the tiff we had the olher night D>n%: kepp ft grudge over a little thirg like thi 1. ! Laea't seen him eioce^a id next time I tlo .11 be very cool to him. Will that do 2 Qita : over and see me soon ; my new whtel award/of] It'd a beauty* I told you I wm goin? logeb a STERLING, and I have. more I hear and see of it the gladder I ftta Not a word against it, and all the girls who h*79 ridden one Bay it is too perfect'y loveljre No trouble with repairs. Strorg Man ironclad and so dainty m appeal anoe. It la a, darl'Bg, Jet call on the agentajiad they will tell joa ill about the chain and bearing a and things better than I can. But Ido hope you'll gat one. I'm sure 1M like your looki fcufe on a STERLING, Yours lovingly,— Nellis.



G. MEDDINS, {Suooesaor to W. Congbbve) THE PEOPLE'S IRONMONGER, 'JBURNETT STREET, Oppoeitfc Arcade, "DESPEOTFULLY invites inspection of J\) hia large and varied Stock of — GARDENING TOOLS — — GARDENING; TOOLS — — GARDENING TOOLS — Including— Digging and Ladies' Spades, Trowels, Garden Rakes and Hoee, Weeding Forks, Datch Hoes, Digging Forks, Hedge Shears, Prun ing Kuives, Syringes, and Shears, etc. BUILDERS 1 lEONMONGIRY. (AGENT FOR SGOTT'S AND BARNINGHAM'S lEANGE ».; EEGISTER GRATES In (froab Variety. G. MEDBINS, THE PEOPLE'S IBONMONGEB.



Established 1880 Telephone 69 \ BAKER BROS., CIURNTSHING TTNDERTAK*.RB i C URNTBEIHG *J NDERTAKERB DIRECT Irnporr..--rs cf Beat ar.fi La tea l Designs In FUNERAL FURM«HIISGB j FUJJERALS concknfed with the 1 greatest care and 6atihfootion, afc most r«iisonable charges. Ooruor of Waksnal Road and C»»8 Streets, and Baker and Brown's Coach F'tOtory. ■