has been enough blood-letting to-day. Yet you shall have a marriage

gift to this girl, whom I myself will take in marriage: you shall give

a hundred head of cattle. Then get you gone from among the People of

the Axe, lest a worse thing befall you, Masilo the Pig."

So Masilo rose up and went, and his face was green with fear, but he

paid the hundred head of cattle and fled towards the kraal of Chaka.

Zinita watched him go, and she was glad of it, and because the

Slaughterer had named her for his wife.