Now it is known to two"-- ah! my father, I did not guess of the third;--"from whom, then, did you hear it ?" "It was from the dead; at least, Galazi the Wolf heard it from the dead One who sat in the cave on Ghost Mountain, for the dead One told him that a man would come to be his brother who should be named Umslopogaas Bulalio, son of Chaka, and Galazi repeated it to me, but I had long forgotten it." "It seems that there is wisdom among the dead," I answered, "for lo! to-day you are named Umslopogaas Bulalio, and to-day I declare you the son of Chaka.

But listen to my tale." Then I told him all the story from the hour of his birth onwards, and when I spoke of the words of his mother, Baleka, after I had told my dream to her, and of the manner of her death by the command of Chaka, and of the great fashion in which she had died, then, I say, Umslopogaas wept, who, I think, seldom wept before or after.

But as my tale drew it its end I saw that he listened ill, as a man listens who has a weightier matter pressing on his heart, and before it was well done he broke in:-- "So, Mopo, my uncle, if I am the son of Chaka and Baleka, Nada the Lily is no sister to me." "Nay, Umslopogaas, she is only your cousin." "Over near of blood," he said; "yet that shall not stand between us," and his face grew glad.
I looked at him in question.
"You grow dull, my uncle.

This is my meaning: that I will marry Nada if she still lives, for it comes upon me now that I have never loved any woman as I love Nada the Lily," and while he spoke, I heard the rat stir in the thatch of the hut.
"Wed her if you will, Umslopogaas," I answered, "yet I think that one Zinita, your Inkosikasi, will find words to say in the matter." "Zinita is my head wife indeed, but shall she hold me back from taking other wives, after the lawful custom of our people ?" he asked angrily, and his anger showed that he feared the wrath of Zinita.
"The custom is lawful and good," I said, "but it has bred trouble at times.

Zinita can have little to say if she continues in her place and you still love her as of old.