23/28 Yet I have taken your fee, and I must earn it--I must earn it. Now, my Idhlozi, my Spirit, do you speak ?" and, holding his head sideways, he turned his left ear up towards the sky, then said presently, in a curious, matter-of-fact voice: "Ah! I thank you, Spirit. Well, King, your grandchild was killed by the House of Masapo, your enemy, chief of the Amasomi." Now a roar of approbation went up from the audience, among whom Masapo's guilt was a foregone conclusion. It is not enough to smell out the House, since I am not as those who went before me were, nor will I slay the innocent with the guilty. |