"
Then he waved his hand again, and Stephen stepped aside muttering
something, for he and Mavovo had been very intimate and his voice
choked in his throat with grief. Now the old Zulu's glazing eye fell
upon Hans, who was sneaking about, I think with a view of finding an
opportunity of bidding him a last good-bye.
"Ah! Spotted Snake," he cried, "so you have come out of your hole now
that the fire has passed it, to eat the burnt frogs in the cinders. It
is a pity that you who are so clever should be a coward, since our
lord Macumazana needed one to load for him on the hill and would have
killed more of the hyenas had you been there."
"Yes, Spotted Snake, it is so," echoed an indignant chorus of the
other Zulus, while Stephen and I and even the mild Brother John looked
at him reproachfully.
Now Hans, who generally was as patient under affront as a Jew, for
once lost his temper. He dashed his hat upon the ground, and danced on
it; he spat towards the surviving Zulu hunters; he even vituperated
the dying Mavovo.
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