human
Now I'll make you speak. Where's the lady?
gpt
Leave him to me, interposed Hume quietly.
human
Of what people are you, he asked the native;
gpt
A Fingo?
human
Yoh!
gpt
Well, then, of what people?
human
A Gaika of the house of Kreli!
gpt
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!
human
Well, Gaika, what do you say before this baas cuts the marks of disgrace upon you with the sjambok?
gpt
What did the master say about the lady--the Inkosikasi?
human
I said she had been carried away; but why repeat it, when you helped?
gpt
It is true, baas, I would have taken one of the things from the waggon--the thing that plays; but I did not know that the lady had been taken.
human
You lie!
gpt
Yoh!
human
Why did you steal away when we came? Was it not because your heart was black?
gpt
Because the things had been disturbed by that Makatese boy. Let me speak. When the baas went to shoot there came a white man, with writing, saying we were to inspan and trek, so that the waggon would be near where the baas was shooting. We inspanned, and one white man came along. He said this was the place to outspan. In the morning another white man came with a cart, which drew up over there beyond the thick bush. They said the lady would go with them until you came back. Then I went off with the oxen to the water, and when I came back the cart was gone, and the lady and the white men, also the leader, and the things in the waggon were disturbed. So my heart was afraid, and I went back to the oxen.
human
Is this story true?
gpt
Eweh, Inkose, it is true.