This man, indeed, said nothing, yet he was not without his thoughts.

For it seemed to him that he had seen three pass through the archway, and not two.

It seemed to him, moreover, that the kaross which the third wore had slipped aside as she pressed past him, and that beneath it he had seen the shape of a beautiful woman, and above it had caught the glint of a woman's eye--an eye full and dark, like a buck's.
Also, this captain noted that Bulalio called none of the captives to swear to the body of the Lily maid, and that he shook the torch to and fro as he held it over her--he whose hand was of the steadiest.

All of this he kept in his mind, forgetting nothing.
Now it chanced afterwards, on the homeward march, my father, that Umslopogaas had cause to speak angrily to this man, because he tried to rob another of his share of the spoil of the Halakazi.

He spoke sharply to him, degrading him from his rank, and setting another over him.