Part 3 (2/2)

”It would seehter, lived many years in your hut, and if you do not know herone Therefore, I judge that you sold this woht accept sohter and return 500 rods and a bag of salt, and if it should be that your daughter ain, you shall pay one-half of her dowry to this ly, anxiously, glancing now and again to the white ood,” said Sanders, and called forward another pleader

”Lord king,” said the new plaintiff, ”a man has put an evil curse on me and my family, so that they sicken”

Here was a little poser for the little judge, and he puzzled theno help

”How does he curse you?” at last asked the king

”With the curse of death,” said the complainant in a hushed voice

”Then you shall curse hi, ”and it shall be a question of whose curse is the stronger”

Sanders grinned behind his hand, and the king, seeing the sress was a rapid one, and there ca as a Soloment

So wise he ho knew of the formula he applied to each case?), so beneficent, so peaceable, that the chief of the Akasava, froentle adrain He did this after a journey to far-away Ikan, where he reed upon co passed the first fault, but the second tribute became due, and neither Akasava nor Ikan sent, and the people of Isisi, angry at the insolence,sat down in the loneliness of his hut to think upon a course which was just and effective

”I really aain, ”but I shall have to borrow your Houssas for the Isisi country There has been a tribute palaver, and Peter went down to Ikan and wiped up his uncle; he filled in his spare ti they have ever had I thoroughly approve of all that Peter has done, because I feel that he is actuated only by the keenest sense of justice and a desire to do the right thing at the right tih I shall have to reprimand Peter for the sake of appearances The Akasava chief is in the bush, hiding”

Peter can, leaving behind him two territories that were all the better for his visit, though soether his old men, his witch-doctors, and other notabilities

”By all the laws of whiteto Sandi, because he has told ht, and, behold, I have destroyed , and I have driven the chief of the Akasava into the forest But Sandi told me also that Ito hts, for I have destroyed a man who put my people to sha to do, and that is to go to Sandi, telling the truth and asking hi,” said the oldest of his councillors, ”what if Sandi puts you to the chain-gang?”

”That is with to-ave orders for preparations to be made for departure

Half-way to headquarters the twoup And here befell the great incident

No as spoken of Peter's fault before sunset; but when blue smoke arose from the fires of Houssa and warrior, and the little ca was all a-chatter, Sanders took the king's ar the forest path

Peter told his tale and Sanders listened

”And what of the chief of the Akasava?” he asked

”Master,” said the king, ”he fled to the forest cursing ain gravely

They talked ofshadows, and then they turned to retrace their footsteps They ithin half a , and the faint scent of fires burning came to them, when the chief of the Akasava stepped out from behind a tree and stood directly in their path With hi men fully armed