Part 3 (1/2)

”You will take your wives, your children, your servants, and your possessions to the village of Ikan, there to stay until I give you leave to return The palaver is finished”

Next came the chief of the Akasava, very ill at ease

”Lord, if any , he lies,” said the chief

”Then I am a liar!” said Sanders ”For I say that you are an evil ”

”If it should be,” said the chief, ”that you order o, since he who is my father is not pleased with me”

”That I order,” said Sanders; ”also, twenty strokes with a stick, for the good of your soul Furtherreat river there is a village where men labour in chains because they have been unfaithful to the Government and have practised abominations”

So the chief of the Akasava people went out to punish adjustment, but they were of a minor character, and when these were all settled to the satisfaction of Sanders, but by no means to the satisfaction of the subjects, the Commissioner turned his attention to the further education of the king

”Peter,” he said, ”to-e, leaving you without councillors”

”Master, howboy?” asked the king, crestfallen and chastened

”By saying to yourself when a man calls for justice: 'If I were this 's justice?'”

The boy looked unhappy

”I a,” he repeated; ”and to-day there coainst their eneood,” said Sanders ”To-day I will sit at the king's right hand and learn of his wisdo in his embarrassment, and eyed Sanders askance

There is a hillock behind the town A worn path leads up to it, and a-top is a thatched hut without sides From this hillock you see the broad river with its sandy shoals, where the crocodiles sleep with open round toward Akasava, hills that rise one on top of the other, covered with a tangle of vivid green In this house sits the king in judgants forward Sato-Koto ont to stand by the king, bartering justice

To-day Sato-Koto was preparing to depart and Sanders sat by the king's side

There were indeed iving no less than a thousand rods and two bags of salt for her He had lived for three months with her, when she departed from his house

”Because,” said the hty Sun of Wisdom, I desire the return of my rods andwriggled uncoly, and Sanders nodded

”That is a wise question,” he approved, and called the father, a voluble and an eager old ,” he said hurriedly, ”I sold this woht I know her oes to the man How shall a father control when a husband fails?”

Sanders looked at the king again, and the boy drew a long breath