If we do not do this they say that they will kill all of us
save the unmarried boys and girls, and that you white people they will
take and put to death by burning, keeping only the two women alive.
One Hassan sends this message."
"Indeed," I answered quietly, for in this fix I grew quite cool as was
usual with me. "And does Bausi mean to give us up?"
"How can Bausi give up Dogeetah who is his blood brother, and you, his
friend?" exclaimed the old general, indignantly. "Bausi sends me to
his brother Dogeetah that he may receive the orders of the white man's
wisdom, spoken through your mouth, lord Macumazana."
"Then there's a good spirit in Bausi," I replied, "and these are
Dogeetah's orders spoken through my mouth. Go to Hassan's messengers
and ask him whether he remembers a certain letter which two white men
left for him outside their camp in a cleft stick. Tell him that the
time has now come for those white men to fulfil the promise they made
in that letter and that before to-morrow he will be hanging on a tree.
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