Part 30 (1/2)

She looked at hi and fixedly, and he returned the stare; then she dropped her eyes ”Many men,” she said

”So I think,” said Sanders

He was eating his dinner when Abiboo came slowly toward him

”Master, the man has died,” he said

Sanders looked at him narrowly

”Which man?”

”The man you chicotted with your own hand,” said Abiboo

Now, the Commissioner had neither chicotted a man, nor had he ordered punishment, but he replied in a e of the caure The Houssas fell apart with black looks as Sanders cah Sanders did not see it, M'Lino looked strangely at Ahmid, a Houssa, who took up his rifle and went stealthily into the bush

The Commissioner bent over the man who lay there, felt his breast, and detected no beat of heart

”Get me eant,” he repeated, ”bring my medicine chest!”

Abiboo saluted slowly, and, with every appearance of reluctance, went

He came back with the case of undressed skin, and Sanders opened it, took out the amn

”We shall see,” was all that Sanders said when the experie and filled the little tube with a solution of strychnine This he jabbed unceremoniously into the patient's back In a minute the corpse sat up, jerkily

”Ha!” said Sanders, cheerfully; ”I aician!”

He rose to his feet, dusted his knees, and beckoned the sergeant

”Take four men and return to the place where you left Tembeli If the leopards have not taken him, you will meet him on the road, because by this time he will have waked up”

He saw the party march off, then turned his attention to M'Lino

”My woman,” he said, ”it is evident to h I have met your like before”-it was observed that the face of Sanders was very white ”I cannot flog you, because you are a wohed

Their eyes le for mastery, and so they stared at one another for a space of time which seemed to Sanders a thousand years, but which was in all probability less than a minute