To you then, Macumazahn, in perpetual memory of those
eventful years of youth which we passed together in the
African towns and on the African veldt, I dedicate these
pages, subscribing myself now as always,
Your sincere friend,
Indanda.
To Arthur H. D. Cochrane, Esq.
ALLAN'S WIFE
CHAPTER I
EARLY DAYS
It may be remembered that in the last pages of his diary, written just
before his death, Allan Quatermain makes allusion to his long dead wife,
stating that he has written of her fully elsewhere.
When his death was known, his papers were handed to myself as his
literary executor. Among them I found two manuscripts, of which the
following is one. The other is simply a record of events wherein Mr.
Quatermain was not personally concerned--a Zulu novel, the story of
which was told to him by the hero many years after the tragedy had
occurred. But with this we have nothing to do at present.
I have often thought (Mr. Quatermain's manuscript begins) that I would
set down on paper the events connected with my marriage, and the loss of
my most dear wife.
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