What was it I had to say to you?
Ah! I remember.

There is one who is always in your thoughts and whom you wish to see, one too who wishes to see you.

You shall, you shall in payment for the trouble you have taken in coming so far to visit a poor old Zulu doctor whom, as you told me long ago, you know to be nothing but a cheat." He paused and, why I could not tell, I grew weak with fear of I knew not what, and bethought me of flight.
"It is cold in this hut, is it not ?" he went on.

"Burn up, fire, burn up!" and plunging his hand into a catskin bag of medicines which he wore, he drew out some powder which he threw upon the embers that instantly burst into bright flame.
"Look now, Macumazahn," he said, "look to your right." I looked and oh Heaven! there before me with outstretched arms and infinite yearning on her face, stood Mameena, Mameena as I had last seen her after I gave her the promised kiss that she used to cover her taking of the poison.

For five seconds, mayhap, she stood thus, living, wonderful, but still as death, the fierce light showing all.