"Bring him here, and with him those who serve him." Now by the light of the moon which was shining brightly in the heavens, for the thunder-clouds had departed with the last glow of sunset, soldiers began an active search for Imbozwi and his confederates.

Of these they caught eight or ten, all wicked-looking fellows hideously painted and adorned like their master, but Imbozwi himself they could not find.
I began to think that in the confusion he had given us the slip, when presently from the far end of the line, for we were still all tied to our stakes, I heard the voice of Sammy, hoarse, it is true, but quite cheerful now, saying: "Mr.Quatermain, in the interests of justice, will you inform his Majesty that the treacherous wizard for whom he is seeking, is now peeping and muttering at the bottom of the grave which was dug to receive my mortal remains." I did inform his Majesty, and in double-quick time our friend Imbozwi was once more fished out of a grave by the strong arms of Babemba and his soldiers, and dragged into the presence of the irate Bausi.
"Loose the white lords and their followers," said Bausi, "and let them come here." So our bonds were undone and we walked to where the king and Brother John stood, the miserable Imbozwi and his attendant doctors huddled in a heap before them.
"Who is this ?" said Bausi to him, pointing at Brother John.

"Is it not he whom you vowed was dead ?" Imbozwi did not seem to think that the question required an answer, so Bausi continued: "What was the song that you sang in our ears just now--that if Dogeetah came you would be ready to be shot to death with arrows in the place of these white lords whose lives you swore away, was it not ?" Again Imbozwi made no answer, although Babemba called his attention to the king's query with a vigorous kick.

Then Bausi shouted: "By your own mouth are you condemned, O liar, and that shall be done to you which you have yourself decreed," adding almost in the words of Elijah after he had triumphed over the priests of Baal, "Take away these false prophets.

Let none of them escape.