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plan. I would go and find the cattle m the valley where 1 had smelt them out, but I would not bring them to the secret hiding place. No, I would drive them straight to the kraal and denounce Noma before the chief, my father, and all the people. But I was young m those days, and did not know all the heart of Noma. I went to the corner of my hut, Noma watching me all the while, and took a kerrie and a small shield. Then 1 started through the moonlight. For an hour I traveled swiftly over the plain, till I came to the hillside where the bush began. At last I found the little buffalo path I sought, and turned along it. Presently I came to an open place "where the moonlight crept In between the trees. I knelt down and looked. Yes! my snake had not lied to { me; there was the spoor of the cattle I Then I went on gladly till I reached a dell through which the water ran softly. Here the trail of the cattle was broad; they had broken down the ferns with their feet and trampled ike grass flat. Presently I came to a pool. I knew it it was the pool my snake had shown me. I stepped forward and looked round. My eye caught something; it was the faint gray light of the dawn glinting on the We horns. 1 > collected them and drove them before me down the narrow path back toward the kraal. Now the daylight came quickly, and the sun had been up an hour when I reached the spot where I should turn if I wished to hide the cat tle m the secret place, as Noma had bid me. But this I would not do. No, I would go on to the kraal with them, and tell all men that Noma was & thief. Still, I sat down and rested awhile, for I was tired. As I sat, I heard a noise and looked up. There, over the slope of the rise, came a crowd of men, and lead ing them was Noma, and by his side the headman who owned the cattle. I stood still wondering, but as I stood they ran toward me, shouting and wav ing sticks and spears. "There he is I" screamed Noma. "There he is I—the clever boy whom I have brought up to bring shame on me. What did I tell you? Did I not tell you that he was a thief? Yes—yesl I know your tricks, Mopo, my childt Seel he is stealing the cattle!" And he made a rush at me with his stick lifted, and af ter Mm came the headman, grunting with rage. I understood, my father. My heart went mad m me. Everything began to swim round; a red cloth seemed to lift itself up and down before my eyes. 1 have always seen it thus when I was forced to fight. I screamed out one word only—"Liarl"—and rushed to meet him. On came Noma. He struck at me with his kerrie, but I caught the blow upon my little shield and hit back. Wow! 1 did hitl The skull of Noma met my kerrie, and down he fell, dead at my feet. I yelled again and rushed on at the headman. He threw an asse gai, but it missed me, and next second 1 hit him too. He got up his shield, but 1 knocked it down upon his head, and over he rolled senseless. Whether he lived or died I know not, but his head being of the thickest I think it likely that he lived. Then, while the people stood astonished, I turned and ran. They turned, too, and ran after me. But none of them could catch me, and presently I was out of sight and alone.

CHAPTER ia MOPO VENTURES HOME.

I threw myself down on the grass and panted till my strength came back; then I went and hid m a patch of reeds down by a swamp. All day long I lay there thinking. What was I to do? Now 1 was a jackal without a hole. If I went back to my people, certainly they would kill me, whom they thought a thief. My blood would be given for Noma's, and that I did not wish, though my heart was sad. Then there came into my mind the thought of Chaka, the boy to whom I had given the cup of water long ago. I had heard of him; his name was known m the land. The words he had said and the vision that my mother had seen were beginning to come true. He had taken the place of his father, Sen zangacona. Now I remembered how this Chaka promised that he would make me great," and I thought m myself that I would arise and go to him. Perhaps he would kill me; well, what did it mat ter? I should certainly be killed if 1 staid here. Yes, I would go. But now my heart pulled another way. There was but one thing that I loved m the world—it was my sister Baleka. My father had betrothed her to the chief of a neighboring tribe, but I knew that this marriage was against her wish. Perhaps my sister would run away with me if I could get near her to tell her that I was going. I would try—yes, I would try. I waited till the darkness came down, then I went on till I came to the kraal. Some of my people were seated outside of a hut, talking together over a fire. I crept near silently as a snake and hid behind a little bush, I knew that they could not see me outside the ring ©f the firelight, and I wanted to hear what they said. As I thought, they were talking of me and called me many names. They said I should bring ill luck on the tribe by having killed so great a witch doctor as Noma, also that the people of the headman would de mand payment for the assault on him. I learned, moreover, that my father had ordered all the men of the tribe out to hunt for me on the morrow, and to kill me wherever they found me. "Ah!" I thought, "you may hunt, but you will bring nothing home to the pot." Just then a dog that was lying by the fire got up and began to sniff the air. I could not see what dog it was—indeed I had forgotten all about the dogs when I drew near the kraal; that is what comes of want of experience, my father. The dog sniffed and sniffed, then he began to growl, looking always my way, and 1 grew afraid. "What is the dog growling at?" said one man to another. "Go and ccc." But the other man was taking snuff and did not like to move. "Let the dog go and see for himself," he answered, sneez-

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ing; "what is the good of keeping a clog if you have to catch the thief?" "Go on, then," said the first man to the dog, and he ran forward, barking. Then 1 saw him; it was my own dog, Koos, a very good dog. Presently, as I lay not know ing what to do, he sraelled my smell, stopped barking, and running around the bush he found me and began to lick my face. "Be quiet, Koos," I whis pered to him, and he lay down by mj side. "Where has that dog gone now?" said the first man. "Is he bewitched, that he suddenly stops barking and does not come back?" "We will see," said the other, rising, a spear m Ma hand. Now I was once more terribly afraid, for I thought that they would catch me or I must run for my life again. But as I sprang up to run a big black snake glided between the men and went off toward the huts. They jumped aside m a great fright, then all turned to follow the snake, saying that this was what the dog was barking at. When they had gone I crept off the other way, and Koos followed me. At first I thought that I would kill him, lest he should betray me; but when I called him to me to knock him on the head I could not do it. So I thought 1 would take my chance, and we went on together. This was my purpose: First to creep into my own nut and get my assegais and skin blanket, then to gain speech with Baleka. I came to the reed fence that surrounded the huts. No body was to be seen at the gate, which was not shut with thorns as usual. That < was my duty, and I had not been there to do it. So, bidding the dog lie down outside, I stepped through boldly, came to the door of my hut and listened. It was empty; there was not even a breath to be heard. So I crept m and began to search for my assegais, my water gourd and my wood pillow. Now the kraal of the chief, my father, Makedama, was two hundred paces away, and there I must go, for there Baleka slept. Also I dared not enter by the gate, because a man waa always on guard there. So I cut my way through the reed fence with my assegai and crept to the hut where Baleka was with some of her half sisters. I knew on what side of the hut it was her custom to lie and where her head would be. So I lay down on my side and gently, very gen tly, began to bore a hole m the grass covering of the hut. Almost I gave it over, thinking that I would fly alone, when suddenly I heard a girl wake and begin to cry on the other side of the thatch. "Ah," I thought, "that is Bale ka, who weeps for her brotherl" So I put my lips where the thatch was thin nest and whispered: "Baleka, my sister! Baleka, do not weep! I, Mopo, am here. Say not a word, but rise. Come out of the hut, bringing your skin blanket." Baleka understood, and after awhile crept from the hut. "Why are you here?" she whispered as we met. "Surely you will be killed!" "Hush!" I said. "Will you come with me, or will you creep back into the hut and bid me farewell?" She thought awhile, then she said, "No, my brother, I will come, though I believe that this will be the end of it— that you will lead me to my death." So we slipped away together, followed by the dog Koos, and soon were running toward the country of the Zulu tribe.

CHAPTER rv. THE FLIGHT OF MOPO AND BALEKA.

Shouted out loud and charged me.

All the rest of that night we jour neyed, till even the dog was tired. Then we hid m a mealio field for a day, as we were afraid of being seen. Toward the afternoon we heard voices, and looking through the steins of the mealies we saH a party of my father's men pass search* ing for us. They went on to a neigh boring kraal to ask if we had been seen, and after that we saw them no more foi awhile. At night we traveled again, but, as fate would have it, we were met by an old woman, who looked oddly at us but said nothing. After that we pushed on day and night, for we knevf that the old woman would tell the pur« suers if she met them; and so indeed it turned out. But now I was doubtful whether vt would go to Chaka, for after what wi had seen I grew afraid lest he should Mil us. Still we had nowhere to turn, so I said that we would walk along till something happened. Now we grew faint with hunger and weariness, and Baleka said that we had better sit down and die, for then there would be no more trouble. So we sat down by a spring. But I did not wish to die yet, though Baleka was right, and it would have been well to do so. As we sat, the dog Koos went to a bush that was near, and presently I heard him spring at something and the sound of struggling. I ran to the bush; he had caught hold of a duiker buck, as big as himself, that was asleep m it. Then I drove my spear into the buck and shouted for joy, for here was food. When the buck was dead I skinned him, and we took bits of the flesh, washed them m the water and ate them, for we had no fire to cook them with. It is not nice to eat uncooked flesh, but we were so hungry that we did not

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