Part 29 (1/2)
”Leopards?” he asked briefly
”Master,” said Sergeant Abiboo, ”it is the woeant,” said the exasperated Sanders, ”if you wake ht with that sort of talk, I will break your infernal head”
”Be that as it eant stolidly, ”she is a witch, for she has talked withthem to behold their children and far-away scenes”
”Have I an escort of babies?” asked Sanders despairingly ”I wish,” he went on, with quiet savageness, ”I had chosen Krooeant winced-”or the mad people of the Isisi River, before I took a half-coulped down the insult, saying nothing
”Bring the wo, and lit his tent lantern
After a while he heard the pattering of bare feet, and the girl caarded him quietly
”M'Lino,” said Sanders, ”I told you that you were not to speak with my men”
”Lord,” she said, ”they spoke with eant at the tent door nodded ”Te orders, and the other ad!” fumed Sanders ”You will take Teive hieant saluted, produced a tawdry little notebook, all brass binding and gold edges, and made a laborious note
”As for you,” said Sanders to the woman, ”you drop your damned bush-mesmerism, or I'll treat you in the same way-alaki?”
”Yes, lord,” she said meekly, and departed
Two Houssas tied Teave hi the sergeant's perquisite
In the ht, and Sanders worried horribly
”It isn't the flogging,” he said; ”he has had the chicotte before”
”It is the woeant wisely ”She is a witch; I foresaw this when she joined the column”
They buried Tembeli, the son of Sekambano, and Sanders wrote three reports of the circumstances of the death, each of which he tore up
Then he e, and Sanders sent the woman, under escort, to the chief, with orders to see her safely to the Sangar River In half an hour she returned, with the escort, and Sergeant Abiboo explained the circu afraid”
”Afraid?” Sanders spluttered in his wrath; ”Afraid? What is he afraid of?”
”Her devilry,” said the sergeant; ”the lo-koli has told him the story of Tebeki, and he will not have her”