Afterwards, 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 wish it, whoever they be." "Perhaps I shall be there," said Umslopogaas.
"After this meeting at the new moon, I am to be given in marriage to Masilo," said the maid.

"But should one conquer Jikiza, then he will be chief, and can give me in marriage to whom he will." Now Umslopogaas understood her meaning, and knew that he had found favour in her sight; and the thought moved him a little, for women were strange to him as yet.
"If perchance I should be there," he said, "and if perchance I should win the iron chieftainess, the axe Groan-Maker, and rule over the People of the Axe, you should not live far from the shadow of the axe thenceforward, maid Zinita." "It is well, Wolf-Man, though some might not wish to dwell in that shadow; but first you must win the axe.

Many have tried, and all have failed." "Yet one must succeed at last," he said, "and so, farewell!" and he leaped into the torrent of the river, and swam it with great strokes.
Now the maid Zinita watched him till he was gone, and love of him entered into her heart--a love that was fierce and jealous and strong.
But as he wended to the Ghost Mountain Umslopogaas thought rather of axe Groan-Maker than of Maid Zinita; for ever, at the bottom, Umslopogaas loved war more than women, though this has been his fate, that women have brought sorrow on his head.
Fifteen days must pass before the day of the new moon, and during this time Umslopogaas thought much and said little.

Still, he told Galazi something of the tale, and that he was determined to do battle with Jikiza the Unconquered for the axe Groan-Maker.