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Rh return; yea, others shall lead away their wives, and their children shall remember them no more.

"And I—I the king like an eagle I have found my eyrie. ''"Behold! far have I wandered in the night time, yet have I returned to my young at the daybreak.'' "Creep ye under the shadow of my wings, O people, and I will comfort you, and ye shall not be dismayed.

"Now is the good time, the lime of spoil.

"Mine are the cattle in the valleys, mine also are the virgins in the kraals. "The winter is overpast, the summer is come. "Now shall Evil cover up her face, and Mercy and Joy shall dwell in the land. "Rejoice, rejoice, my people! "Let all the world rejoice in that the tyranny is trodden down, in that I am the king."

Ignosi ceased, and out of the gathering gloom came back the deep reply—

"Thou art the king!"

Thus was my prophecy to the herald fulfilled, and within the forty-eight hours Twala's headless corpse was stiffening at Twala's gate.