Only Galazi the Wolf shook his head.

But he said nothing, for words do not avail against fate.

Now as I found afterwards, since Zinita, the head wife of Umslopogaas, had learned of what stock he was, she had known that Nada was no sister to him.

Yet when she heard him declare that he was about to take the Lily to wife she turned upon him, saying:-- "How can this be, Lord ?" "Why do you ask, Zinita ?" he answered.

"Is it not allowed to a man to take another wife if he will ?" "Surely, Lord," she said; "but men do not wed their sisters, and I have heard that it was because this Nada was your sister that you saved her from Dingaan, and brought the wrath of Dingaan upon the People of the Axe, the wrath that shall destroy them." "So I thought then, Zinita," he answered; "now I know otherwise.