Would you know why he has
betrayed us? Because he sought my favour, and I refused him, and this is
the vengeance that he takes--a white man's vengeance."
"_Wow!_" broke in the chief Maputa, "this pretty one speaks truth, for
the white man would have made a bargain with me under which Umgona,
the wizard, and Nahoon, the soldier, were to be killed at the Crocodile
Drift, and he himself suffered to escape with the girl. I spoke him
softly and said 'yes,' and then like a loyal man I reported to the
king."
"You hear," sighed Nanea. "Nahoon, fare you well, though presently
perhaps we shall be together again. It was I who tempted you from your
duty. For my sake you forgot your honour, and I am repaid. Farewell,
my husband, it is better to die with you than to enter the house of the
king's women," and Nanea stepped on to the platform.
Here, holding to a bough of one of the thorn trees, she turned and
addressed Hadden, saying:--
"Black Heart, you seem to have won the day, but me at least you lose
and--the sun is not yet set.
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