Part 32 (1/2)
”Master, you sent for aze
”On second thoughts,” he said, ”I do not need you”
The chief went aith a whole thanksgiving service in his heart, for there had been certain secret doings on the river for which he expected reprio todown her mortar, rose and went obediently to the steareat many matters to consider If he denounced this woe, she would be stoned to death; if he carried her to headquarters and tried her, there was no evidence on which a conviction ht be secured There was no place to which he could deport her, yet to leave her would be to open the way for further mischief
She awaited hihteen, fearless, defiant
”M'Fasa,” said Sanders, ”why did you kill your husband?”
”Lord, I did not kill hiedly as before
Sanders paced the narrow deck, his head on his breast, for this was a profound probleo,” he said; and the wo the plank that connected the boat with the shore, and disappeared into the bush
Three weeks later his spies brought word thatunaccountably on the Upper River None knehy they died, for a, when his people went to wake hi es on the Little River
”It's getting monotonous,” said Sanders to the captain of the Houssas ”There is so up to find the gentleman who dispenses the dope”
It so happened that the first case claiation was at Isisi City It was a woman who had died, and this time Sanders suspected the husband, a notorious evil-doer
”Okali,” he said, co to the point, ”why did you poison your wife?”
”Lord,” said theshe ell, but at the dark hour before sun cahtway she died”
Sanders drew a long breath
”Get a rope,” he said to one of his men, and when the rope arrived Abiboo scraum and scientifically lashed a block and tackle
”Okali,” said Sanders, ”I a you for the murder of your wife, for I am a busy uilty of her murder, yet there are uilty of, therefore I arey with terror when they slipped the noose over his neck and strapped his hands behind him
”Lord, she was a bad wife to me and had many lovers,” he stammered ”I did not mean to kill her, but the Devil Man said that such et her lovers--”
”Devil Man! What Devil Man?” asked Sanders quickly