And now, as it is not good that we should wrangle before this white lord, again I say to you that this is my hut, in which I wish to speak alone with my guest." "I go, I go!" gasped Mameena; "but I tell you that Saduko shall hear of this." "Certainly he will hear of it, for I shall tell him when he comes to-night." Another instant and Mameena was gone, having shot out of the hut like a rabbit from its burrow.
"I ask your pardon, Macumazahn, for what has happened," said Nandie, "but it had become necessary that I should teach my sister, Mameena, upon which stool she ought to sit.

I do not trust her, Macumazahn.

I think that she knows more of the death of my child than she chooses to say, she who wished to be rid of Masapo for a reason you can guess.

I think also she will bring shame and trouble upon Saduko, whom she has bewitched with her beauty, as she bewitches all men--perhaps even yourself a little, Macumazahn.

And now let us talk of other matters." To this proposition I agreed cordially, since, to tell the truth, if I could have managed to do so with any decent grace, I should have been out of that hut long before Mameena.