This, then, is my plan: we will search now by the starlight till we find the body of a fair maid, for, doubtless, some were killed by hazard in the fight, and on her we will set a warrior's dress, and lay by her the corpse of one of your own men.

To-morrow, at the light, you shall take the captains of your soldiers and, having laid the body of the girl in the dark of the cave, you shall show it to them hurriedly, and tell them that this was the Lily, slain by one of your own people, whom in your wrath you slew also.

They will not look long on so common a sight, and if by hazard they see the maid, and think her not so very fair, they will deem that it is death which has robbed her of her comeliness.

So the tale which you must tell to Dingaan shall be built up firmly, and Dingaan shall believe it to be true." "And how shall this be, Nada ?" asked Umslopogaas.

"How shall this be when men see you among the captives and know you by your beauty?
Are there, then, two such Lilies in the land ?" "I shall not be known, for I shall not be seen, Umslopogaas.