Also there would be with him the two great Zulus who were now recovering from their attack of stomach sickness, so that she would have nothing to fear.

She answered with her slow smile that she feared nothing, still, she would have liked to come with us.

Then we parted, as it proved for a long time.
It was quite a ceremony.

Umslopogaas, "in the name of the Axe" solemnly gave over Inez to the charge of his two followers, bidding them guard her with so much earnestness that I began to suspect he feared something which he did not choose to mention.

My mind went back indeed to the prophecy of the witch-doctor Goroko, of which it was possible that he might be thinking, but as while he spoke he kept his fierce eyes fixed upon the fat and pompous quarter-breed, Thomaso, I concluded that here was the object of his doubts.
It might have occurred to him that this Thomaso would take the opportunity of her father's absence to annoy Inez.