But I tell you, Nanea, and you, White
Man, as I told Umgona just now, that I think no good will come of this
flight, and if we are caught or betrayed, we shall be killed every one
of us."
"Caught we can scarcely be," broke in Nanea anxiously, "for who could
betray us, except the _Inkoos_ here----"
"Which he is not likely to do," said Hadden quietly, "seeing that he
desires to escape with you, and that his life is also at stake."
"That is so, Black Heart," said Nahoon, "otherwise I tell you that I
should not have trusted you."
Hadden took no notice of this outspoken saying, but until very late that
night they sat there together making their plans.
*****
On the following morning Hadden was awakened by sounds of violent
altercation. Going out of his hut he found that the disputants were
Umgona and a fat and evil-looking Kaffir chief who had arrived at the
kraal on a pony. This chief, he soon discovered, was named Maputa, being
none other than the man who had sought Nanea in marriage and brought
about Nahoon's and Umgona's unfortunate appeal to the king.
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