` Masilo , ' he said , as he entered the hut , ' I have just beheld your wife near the river with a girl who must be your daughter , she is so like you . We have been deceived , for we all thought she was dead . ' When he heard this , Masilo tried to look shocked because his wife had broken the law ; but in his heart he was very glad . ` But what shall we do now ? ' asked he . ` Make sure for yourself that I am speaking the truth by hiding among the bushes the first time Thakane says she is going to bathe in the river , and waiting till the girl appears . ' For some days Thakane stayed quietly at home , and her husband began to think that the man had been mistaken ; but at last she said to her husband : ' I am going to bathe in the river . ' ` Well , you can go , ' answered he . But he ran down quickly by another path , and got there first , and hid himself in the bushes . An instant later , Thakane arrived , and standing on the bank , she sang : Bring to me Dilah , Dilah the rejected one , Dilah , whom her father Masilo cast out ! Then the old woman came out of the water , holding the girl , now tall and slender , by the hand . And as Masilo looked , he saw that she was indeed his daughter , and he wept for joy that she was not lying dead in the bottom of the lake . The old woman , however , seemed uneasy , and said to Thakane : ' I feel as if someone was watching us . I will not leave the girl to-day , but will take her back with me ' ; and sinking beneath the surface , she drew the girl after her . After they had gone , Thakane returned to the village , which Masilo had managed to reach before her . All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping , and his mother who came in asked : ` Why are you weeping so bitterly , my son ? ' ` My head aches , ' he answered ; ` it aches very badly . ' And his mother passed on , and left him alone . In the evening he said to his wife : ' I have seen my daughter , in the place where you told me you had drowned her . Instead , she lives at the bottom of the lake , and has now grown into a young woman . ' '
I do n't know what you are talking about , ' replied XXXXX . '
Dilah Masilo Thakane drowned evening first home left path village