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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: like one who begs pardon, though the rest of what l had said he
ignored. "But still you are Zikali's friend, for between you and
him there is a rope which enabled him to draw you to Zululand,
which rope I have heard called by a woman's name. Therefore by
the spirit of that woman, which still can draw you like a rope, I
charge you, tell me--what does this old wizard mean, and why
should I not kill him and be rid of one who haunts my heart like
an evil vision of the night and, as I sometimes think, is an,
umtakati, an evil-doer, who would work ill to me and all my
House, yes, and to all my people?"
"How should I know what he means, O King?" I answered with
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