Also, what does she think of this matter ?" "She thinks well of it, Umbelazi, for she has seen Saduko and taken a liking to him.

She told me herself that she wishes no other husband." "Is it so ?" replied Umbelazi indifferently.

"Then if the King commands, and the King's daughter desires, what more is there to be said ?" "Much, I think," broke in Cetewayo.

"I hold that it is out of place that this little man, who has but conquered a little tribe by borrowing the wit of Macumazahn here, should be rewarded not only with a chieftainship, but with the hand of the wisest and most beautiful of the King's daughters, even though Umbelazi," he added, with a sneer, "should be willing to throw him his own sister like a bone to a passing dog." "Who threw the bone, Cetewayo ?" asked Umbelazi, awaking out of his indifference.

"Was it the King, or was it I, who never heard of the matter till this moment?
And who are we that we should question the King's decrees?
Is it our business to judge or to obey ?" "Has Saduko perchance made you a present of some of those cattle which he stole from the Amakoba, Umbelazi ?" asked Cetewayo.