You must set me free to-night.

I will wander hence disguised as a youth and covered with a blanket, and if any meet me, who shall say that I am the Lily ?" "And where will you wander, Nada?
to your death?
Must we, then, meet after so many years to part again for ever ?" "Where was it that you said you lived, my brother?
Beneath the shade of a Ghost Mountain, that men may know by a shape of stone which is fashioned like an old woman frozen into stone, was it not?
Tell me of the road thither." So Umslopogaas told her the road, and she listened silently.
"Good," she said.

"I am strong and my feet are swift; perhaps they may serve to bring me so far, and perhaps, if I win the shadow of that mountain, you will find me a hut to hide in, Umslopogaas, my brother." "Surely it shall be so, my sister," answered Umslopogaas, "and yet the way is long and many dangers lie in the path of a maid journeying alone, without food or shelter," and as he spoke Umslopogaas thought of Zinita his wife, for he guessed that she would not love Nada, although she was only his sister.
"Still, it must be travelled, and the dangers must be braved," she answered, smiling.

"Alas! there is no other way." Then Umslopogaas summoned Galazi the Wolf and told him all this story, for Galazi was the only man whom he could trust.

The Wolf listened in silence, marvelling the while at the beauty of Nada, as the starlight showed it.