Part 3 (1/2)
”Yeah?” Tiuy And if ye hear anybody yowlin' before it worried It won't be me”
”None of that, Tim,” warned Knowlton ”The war's over--”
”Since when? There wasn't no peace treaty signed e left the States”
”Er--ahuht But this fellow may be useful to us He knows the upper river, they say”
”Aell, if ye can use him I'll lay off him Where is he?”
”Out somewhere,” answered McKay ”I haven't seen him yet Want this first room, Merry?”
”Just to play safe, I'll take the one next the Ger over the top with both hands going”
”Grrruoes, Tim,” warned McKay ”I'll take this rooe train with our stuff In here, e and Rosario and Meldo shuffled in with the boxes and bundles Under the directions of McKay and Knowlton, these were stowed in the bare roo happily over a small roll of Brazilian paper reis which McKay had peeled froer roll and handed to the their departure, in ca three new hammocks
”Our beds,” McKay explained ”I sent this lad to a trader's store for them He's the proprietor's son Thank you, Thomaz Tell your father to put these on our bill, and take for yourself this sed hands The young Brazilian, with a flash of teeth, infor h a rear door
”Do they really feed us at this here, now, hotel?” Ti?” puzzled Knowlton
”Meanin' I didn't know but we had to kill our supper, and I was goin' to git the cap'n's goat That is, the goat the cap'n's kiddin'--I oat--Aw, rats! ye knohat I'ht”
Wherewith Ti with his new hammock and the iron hooks
Swift darkness filled the roo world Thomaz re-entered, lit candles stuck in empty bottles, and, with a bow, placed one of these crude illuers By the flickering lights McKay and Knowlton disposed their effects according to their individual desires, bearing in mind Tim's observation that any small article dropped on the floor would land in the s Their as soon coether to the small piazza
”Nice quiet little place,” coood sanitarium for nervous folks”
The comment was made in a tone which, in the daytime, would carry half a mile McKay nodded to save a si monkey which so startled Tiht concert of the jungle Now that the sun was gone the chorus was in full swing
Beasts of the village, the jungle, the river, all hurled their voices into the uproar Fro of cows and calves, the howls and yelps of dogs, the yowling of cats, the grunts and squeals of hogs In the black river, flowing past within a stone's throw of the hotel door, sounded the loud snorts of dolphins and the hideous night call of the foul beast of the le of trees and brush and great snakelike vines behind the town rolled the appalling roars of guaribas, raucous bird calls, dis all other sound by the sheerpower, throbbed the rapid-fire has sound like a e,” the blondsteel”
”Queer how ht in it We've heard it all the way up two thousand ht beside the orchestra now Position is everything in life”
The double-edged jest le-faced Scot's past he knew little beyond what he had seen of him in here he had met him and learned to respect him whole-heartedly From occasional remarks he had learned that McKay had been in all sorts of places between Buenos Aires and Noible hints he suspected that his ”position in life” had once been her socially than at present But he asked no questions
”Soht,” he responded, casually ”Plenty of jazz