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and he pointed with his spear tothegi'aj7 witch on the Ghost mountain, on which the moon shone briglit. Now, the captain had a great heart and answered boldly. "What is that to you, wizard? Your ghost wolves have made an end of my errand, -Let them make an end of me also!" "Be not in haste, captain," said Um slopogaas. "Now choose and swiftly. Will you run for your life against my wolves, or will you stand face to face with me, and if I am slain with him who bears the club and with whom I rule this people, black and gray?" "I fear ghosts, but of men I have no fear, though they be wizards," answered the captain. "Good!" cried Umslopogaas, shaking his spear. Then they rushed together, and that fray was fierce. For presently the spear of Umslopogaas was broken in the shield of the captain, and he was left weaponless. Now Umslopogaas turned and fled swiftly, bounding over the dead and the wolves who preyed upon them, and the captain followed with uplifted spear and mocked him as he came. Galazi also wondered that Umslopogaas should fly from a single man. Hither and thither fled Umslopogaas, and al ways his eyes were on the earth. Of a sudden, Galazi, who watched, saw him sweep forward like a bird and stoop to the ground. Then he wheeled around, and lo! in his hand there was an ax. The captain rushed at him and Umslopo gaas smote as he rushed, and the blade of the great spear that was lifted to pierce him fell to the ground, hewn from its haft. Again Umslopogaas smote; the moon shaped ax sank through the stout shield deep into the breast be yond. Then the captain threw up his arms and sank to the earth. Then Umslopogaas spoke to Galazi, saying: "My brother, I will fight no more with the spear, but with the ax alone; it was to seek an ax that I ran to and fro like a coward. But this is a poor thing! See, the haft is split because of the greatness of my stroke! Now this is my desire—to win that great ax of Jikiza, which is called Groanmaker, of which we have heard tell, so that ax and club may stand together in the fray." "That must be for another night," said Galazi. "We have not done so ill for once." Thus then did the wolf brethren bring ■ death on the impi of Chaka, and this I was but the first of many deaths that they ! wrought, with the help of the wolves. 1 For ever they ravened through the land | at night, and failing on those they hated they ate them up, till the land was swept clean. But the wolves would not go abroad to woiTy everywhere. Thus on a certain night <&ey set out to fall upon the kraals of the People of the As, where dwelt the chief Jikiza, who was named the Unconquered, and owned the ax Groanmakor, but when they j neared the kraal the wolves turned back and fled. Then Galazi remembered that which the Dead One in the cave had seemed to speak, telling him that there only where the men eaters had hunted in the past might the wolves hunt toaay. So they returned again.

CHAPTER XIV-

UMSL.OPOGAAS VENTURES OUT TO WIN

THE AX,

How many moons had gone by since Umslopogaas became a king of the wolves, and he was a man full grown; a man fierce and tall and keen; a slayer of men, fleet of foot and of valor une qualed, seeing by night as well as by day. But he was not yet named the Slaughterer, and not yet did he hold that iron chieftainess, the ax Groanmaker, Still this waa foremost in his mind, to win thd ax, for no woman had entered there, who when she enters drives out ail other desire—aye, my father, even that of good weapons. At times, in deed, Umslopogaas would lurk in the reeds by the river looking at the kraal of JiMaa the Unconquered, and would watch the gates of his kraal, and once as he lurked he saw a man, great and broad and hairy, who bore upon Ms shoulder a shining ax haf ted with the horn of a rhinoceros. After that his greed for this ax entered into Umslopo gaas till he spoke of little else. Now it befell that as Umslopogaas lurked one evening in the reeds, watch ing the kraal of Jikiaa, he saw a maiden straight and fair, whose skin shone like the copper anklets on her limbs. She walked slowly on toward the reeds, en tered them and sat herself down within a spear's length of where Umslopogaas lay hid and at once began to weep, Bpeaking to herself as she wept. "Would that the ghost wolves might fall on him and all that is his," she Bobbed; "aye, and on Masilo also! 1 would hound them on, even if myself I must next know their fangs. Better to die by the teeth of the wolves than to be sold to this fat pig of a Masilo. Oh, if 1 must wed him I will give him a knife for the bride's kiss I Oh, that I were lady of the ghost wolves!" Umslopogaas heard, and of a sudden reared himself up before the maid, "The ghost wolves are at hand, dam eel," he said. "They are ever at hand for those who need them." Now the maid saw him and screamed faintly, then grew silent. "Who are you?" she asked, "I fear you not, whoever you are!" "There you are wrong, damsel, for all men fear me and they have cause to fear. I am one of the wolf brethren, whose names have been told of. lam a wizard of the Ghost mountain. Take heed, now, lest I kill you. It will be of little avail to call upon your people, for my feet are fleeter than theirs." "I have no wish to call upon my peo ple, Wolf Man," she answered. "And for the rest, I am too young to kill." "That is so, maiden," answered Um elopogaas, looking at her beauty. ' 'What were tlio words upon your lips as to Jikiza and a certain Masilo?" "It geems that you heard them," an swered the girl. "What need to waste breath in speaking them again?" "No need, maiden, Now, tell me your

story; p&rhapa I may find a way to help you> "There is little to tell," she answered. "It is a small tale and a common. My name ia Zinita, and Jikiza the Uncon qnered is my stepfather. Now he would give me in marriage to a certain Masilo, a fat man and an old, whom I hate, be cause Masilo offers many cattle for me." •'la there, then, another whom you would wed, maiden?" asked Umslopo gaas. "There is none," answered Zinita, look ing him in his eyes. •'And is there no path by which yon may escape from Masilo?" "There is only one path, Wolf Man by death. If 1 die I shall escape; if Masilo dies I shall escape; but to little end, for 1 shall be given to another. But if JiMza dies, then it will be well. What of that wolf people of yours? Are they not hungry, Wolf Man?" "I may not bring them here," an swered Umslopogaas. "Is there no other way?" "There is another way," said Zinita, "if one can be found to try it," and again she looked at him strangely, caus ing the blood to beat within him. "Hearken 1 do you not know how our peo ple are governed? They are governed by him who holds the ax G-roanmaker. He that can win the ax in war from the hand of him who holds it, he shall i be onr chief. But if he who holds the I ax dies nnconquered, then his son takes his place, and with it the ax. It has i been thus, indeed, for four generations; since he who held Groanmaker has al ways been unconquerable. But I have heard this, that the great-grandfather of Jikiza won the ax from him who held it in. his day; he won it by 'fraud, for when the ax had fallen on him but lightly he fell over, feigning death. Then the owner of the ax laughed and turned to walk away. But the fore father of Jikiza sprang up behind him and pierced him through with a spear, and thus became chief of the People of the Ax. Therefore it is the custom of Jikiza to hew off the heads of those whom he kills with the ax." "Does he, then, slay many?" asked Umslopogaas. "Of late years few indeed," she said, "for none dare stand against him.—no, not with all to win. For, holding the ax Groanmaker, he is unconquerable, and to fight with him is sure death. Fifty and one have tried in all, and before the hut of Jikiza there are piled fifty and one white skulls. And know this, th© ax must be won in fight; if it is stolen or found it has no virtue—nay, it brings shame and death to him who holds it." "How, then, may a man give battle to Jikiza?" he asked again. "Thus: Once in every year, on the first day of the new moon of the summer season, Jikiza holds a mefiting of the headmen. Then he must rise and chal lenge all or any to come forward and do battle with him to win the ax and be come chief in his place. Now if one comes forward they go into the cattle kraal and there the^ matter is ended. Afterward, when the'head is hewn from his foe, Jikiza goes back to the meeting of the headmen and they talk as before. All are free to come to the meeting, and Jikiza must fight with them if they will it, whoever they be." "Perhaps I shall be there," said Um slopogaas. "After this meeting at the new moon I am to be given in marriage to Masilo," said the maid. "But should one con quer Jikiza then he will be chief, and • can give me in marriage to whom he will." "If perchance I should be there," ho said, "and if perchance I should win the iron chieftainess, the ax Groanmaker, and rule over the People of the Ax, you should not live far from the shadow of the ax thenceforward, Maid Zinita." "It is well, Wolf Man; but first you must win the ax. Many have tried and all have failed." "Yet one must succeed at last," he eaid, "and so farewell I" Now the maid Zinita watched him till he was gone, and love of him entered into her heart. Fifteen days must pass before the day of the new moon, and during this time Umslopogaas thought much and said lit tle. Still he told Galazi something of the tale, and that he was determined to do battle with JiMza the Unconquered for j the ax Groanmaker, for his heart was set both on the ax and the girl, but more on the first than the last. So the time wore on, and at length came the day of the new moon. At,the dawn of that day Umslopogaas arose and clad himself in a moocha, binding the she wolf's skin round his middle beneath the moocha. In his hand he took a stout fighting shield, which he had made of buffalo hide, and that same light, moon shaped ax with which he had slain the captain of Chaka. Now Umslopogaas ate, and then they moved together slowly down the moun tain and crossed the river by a ford, for he would save his strength. On the far ther side of the river Galazi hid himself in the reeds because his face was known, and there Umslopogaas bade him fare well, not knowing if he should look upon him again. Afterward he walked up to the Great Place of Jikiza. Now when he reached the gates of the kraal he saw that many people were stream ing through them and mingled with the people. Presently they came to the open space in front of the huts of Jikiza, and there the headmen were gathered together. In the center of them, and before a heap of the skulls of men which were piled up against his doorsteps, sat Jikiza, a huge man, a hairy and a proud, who glared about him, rolling his eyes. Fastened to his arm by a throng of leather was the great ax Groanmaker, and each man as he came up saluted the I ax, calling it "Inkosikaas," or chief tainess, but he did not salute Jikiza. | Umslopogaas sat down with the people in front of the councilors, and few took any notice of him except Zinita, who moved sullenly to and fro bearing pots of beer to the councilors. Near to Jikiza, on his right hand, sat a fat man with | small and twinkling eyes, who watched the maid Zinita g^^y-^^,,^^.

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