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Child of Storm

CHAPTER X
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Yet I have taken your fee, and I must earn it--I must earn it.

Dust, you are dumb.

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.
When this had died down Panda spoke, saying: "The House of Masapo is a large house; I believe that he has several wives and many children.

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.


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