[*] Guardian Spirit.

Nahoon heard and opened his eyes to look and his madness left him.

“Welcome, wife,” he said faintly, “now I will live since Death has brought you back to me in the House of the Dead.”

*****

To-day Nahoon is one of the Indunas of the English Government in Zululand, and there are children about his kraal.  It was from the lips of none other than Nanea his wife that the teller of this tale heard its substance.

The Bee also lives and practises as much magic as she dares under the white man’s rule.  On her black hand shines a golden ring shaped like a snake with ruby eyes, and of this trinket the Bee is very proud.