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"How can I go away," he went on excitedly, "just when all the seed that I have sown is ripening to harvest? If I did so, my ould be utterly lost, and ain I a that he can do toive of o,me to finish o, and Rachel, when she was asked, shrugged her shoulders and answered laughing that she was not afraid of anybody or anything, and, except for her mother's sake, did not care whether she went or stayed Certainly she would not leave her, nor, she added, did she wish to say goodbye to Africa

When she was asked why, she replied vaguely that she had grown up there, and it was her hoh that she had another reason, although no word of it every passed her lips In Africa she had met Richard Darrien as a child, and in Africa and nowhere else she believed she would ain as a wo to the Ras of the white h the Kaffirs, indeed, that although he still kept his kraal at Mafooti, he hi journey far to the north, and did not expect to return for a year, news at which everyone rejoiced, except Noie, who shook her wise little head and said nothing

So all fear of the s were very peaceful and prosperous at Ramah

In fact this quiet proved to be but the lull before the storht months after Mr Dove had visited the kraal Mafooti, another e with it a present of more white cattle She received theht and alone, for they refused to speak to her in the presence of other people

In substance their petition was the same that it had been before, na and his indunas desired her counsel upon an important matter When asked what this norant, saying that it had not been confided to theaan chose to subive him her opinion on it, but that she could not co that the whole nation would guard her, and no hair of her head be harmed