“Yoh!” he exclaimed, with a flash from his small black eyes.
“Well, then, of what people?”
“A Gaika of the house of Kreli!”
Frank looked at the man steadily, then suddenly spoke in Kaffir.
“You a Gaika; and you come like a dog of a Fingo in the night to rob those who have served you well, after playing the part of a jackal to the men who carried off the lady!”
The Kaffir made a sharp exclamation when he heard Hume speak his own tongue, gave him a swift, startled look, then hung his head.
“Well, Gaika, what do you say before this baas cuts the marks of disgrace upon you with the sjambok?”
The Kaffir lifted his head.
“What did the master say about the lady—the Inkosikasi?”
“I said she had been carried away; but why repeat it, when you helped?”