Part 16 (2/2)

”Well, that ed father; ”yet it would be folly to begin by naht and all the next day, and in the end the envoy of the great king grew impatient

”Let the woman be sent for,” he said, and obedient to the sulances of encouragement to the unemotional ambassador, and with subtle exhibitions of her chars desires you, will you co better”

With that, the hundred arirl

”And so,” said Sanders, ”you got nothing?”

”Lord, it is as you say,” moaned the old chief

”It is evident,” said Sanders, ”that an injustice has been done; for no man may take a woman unless he pay I think,” he added, with a flash of that ments, ”that the man pays twice, once to the father, and all his life to his wife-but that is as may be”

Six weeks later, after consultation, Sanders sent athe price of the woer I would rather not describe That he was killed, is saying the least Just before he died, when the glaze of deathto the rest of oblivion, he was carried to a place before the king's hut, and Daihili danced the Dance of the Spirits This ; nor did the British Governed between ambassadors and ministers in Paris, and that was the end of the incident

Two Icheli spies went up into the great king's country One cairl was the favourite wife of the old king, and that her whims swayed the destinies of the nation Also he reported that because of this sliirl who danced, many men, councillors, and captains of war had died the death

The other spy did not come back

It irl to send an ar perchance that her people were spying upon her

One day the city of Icheli was surrounded by the soldiers of the great king, and neither man, woman nor child escaped

The news of thetie, for the Icheli are isolated folk One day, however, an Isisi hunting party, searching for elephants, ca and many skeletons-and thus Sanders knew--

”We cannot,” wrote Monsieur Leon Marchassa, Minister for Colonial Affairs, ”accept responsibility for the i, and ard with sympathetic interest any attempt that was made by His Majesty's Government to pacify this country”

But the British Govern, because war is an expensive enially

Taking his life in his hands, he went up to the border of Yitingi, with twenty police With the audacity which was not the least of his assets, he de should come to him for a palaver

This adventure nearly proved abortive at the beginning, for just as the Zaire was stea to the borders Sanders unexpectedly ca expedition There were unns as to the author

”I have a mind to turn back and punish that cursed Bosaeant Abiboo, ”for having sworn by a variety of Gods and devils that he would keep the peace; behold he has been raiding in foreign territory”

”He will keep, hbourhood, for his fires are still war

He kept steam in his little boat-he had chosen the only place where the river touches the Yitingi border-and waited, quite prepared to nominious, if judicious, bolt