'A gallant deed! You have butchered the father and the mother, and now you would butcher the child who has slain one of your grown warriors in fair fight.

A very gallant deed, well worthy of the chief of the Amakoba! Well, loose his spirit--only--' He stopped and took a pinch of snuff from a box which he drew from a slit in the lobe of his great ear.
"'Only what ?' asked Bangu, hesitating.
"'Only I wonder, Bangu, what you will think of the world in which you will find yourself before to-morrow's moon arises.

Come back thence and tell me, Bangu, for there are so many worlds beyond the sun, and I would learn for certain which of them such a one as you inhabits: a man who for hatred and for gain murders the father and the mother and then butchers the child--the child that could slay a warrior who has seen war--with the spear hot from his mother's heart.' "'Do you mean that I shall die if I kill this lad ?' shouted Bangu in a great voice.
"'What else ?' answered Zikali, taking another pinch of snuff.
"'This, Wizard; that we will go together.' "'Good, good!' laughed the dwarf.

'Let us go together.

Long have I wished to die, and what better companion could I find than Bangu, Chief of the Amakoba, Slayer of Children, to guard me on a dark and terrible road.