Sandi, the King-Maker by Edgar Wallace

IT is said with some truth that all wars begin with a woman, and certain it is that the war which the people of Tofolaka joined to make is traceable to Egeni, who was a woman of fifteen, the daughter of the chief Rimilaka, who might have been the wife of M'ndi, the dead chief of the Tofolaka, but that the high chief and his subordinate fell out over the price of. Her father demanded twenty goats but M'ndi stuck at eight goats. So they went apart, and on the day that Bosambo's spear cut short the life of M'ndi, this woman Erring had been married for seven moons, though not to the man she loved.

It was all to the bad that her husband was a quiet man and in awe of her, because she was the daughter of Rimilaka, who was marked for the chieftainship. On the first day of her coming to her husband's hut she settled any question which might have existed as to the dominant partnership in their new combination by hitting him with an iron pot on the head, so that he bled. And he carried his woes to Rimilaka.