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KARE kare kwaive nemuchinda aida kuroora muchindakadzi; asi aifanira kuva muchindakadzi chaiye. Akafamba-famba pasi rese kuti awane mumwe, asi hapana kwaaigona kuwana zvaaida. Kwaiva nemachindakadzi akawanda, asi zvaive zvakaoma kuziva kana vaive vechokwadi. Kwaigara kune chimwe chinhu pamusoro pavo chakanga chisina kunaka sezvachaifanira kuva. Saka akadzoka kumba zvakare uye akasuruvara, nekuti angadai akada zvikuru kuva nemuchindakadzi chaiye.

Rimwe zuva manheru dutu guru rakauya; kwakave nemabhanan'ana nemheni, uye mvura yakanaya zvikuru. Pakarepo kugogodza kwakanzwika pasuo reguta, uye mambo wekare akaenda kunorivhura.

Yaiva muchindakadzi akamira kunze uko pamberi pegedhi. Asi, zvakanaka! Aitaridzika zvakanaka mvura nemhepo. Mvura yaiyerera kubva mubvudzi rake nehembe dzake; yaiyerera ichienda kutsoka dzake ikabuda zvakare pazvitsitsinho. Asi akati aive muchindakadzi chaiye.

“Zvakanaka, tichakurumidza kuziva izvozvo,” akafunga mambokadzi wekare. Asi haana kutaura chinhu, akapinda muimba yekurara, akabvisa magumbeze ese pamubhedha, ndokuisa pizi pasi; ndokubva atora matiresi makumi maviri ndokuaisa papizi, uye ipapo mabhedha makumi maviri eeder-down pamusoro pematiresi.

Mambokadzi akarara husiku hwese ipapo. Mangwanani akabvunzwa kuti akanga arara sei.

"Maiwe, zvakaipa!" akadaro. "Handina kumbovhara maziso angu husiku hwese. Denga rinongoziva zviri pamubhedha chete, asi ndanga ndakarara pane chimwe chinhu chakaoma, zvekuti ndava mutema nebhuruu muviri wangu wese. Zvinotyisa!"

Zvino vakanga vava kuziva kuti akanga ari mambokadzi chaiye nekuti akanga anzwa nyemba kuburikidza nematiresi makumi maviri nemibhedha makumi maviri yaipinda nepakati.

Hapana mumwe kunze kwemuchindakadzi chaiye anogona kuva nehanya nepfungwa dzakadai.

Saka muchinda akamutora semukadzi wake, nekuti iye zvino akanga ava kuziva kuti aiva nemuchindakadzi chaiye; uye nyemba dzakaiswa mumiziyamu, kwadzinogona kuonekwa, kana pasina akamboba.

Ikoko, inyaya yechokwadi.