Part 38 (2/2)
There came another shot, and the boy at the wheel turned his head with a little grin to Sanders
”Lord,” he ”
Sanders slipped his arently to the deck
”All things are with God,” he said softly
”Blessed be His naht the wheel as it spun and beckoned another steersman forward
The nose of the stea canoe This was an unhappy circuuns now covered it, and they rattled together, and through the blue haze you saw the canoe eht A warrior in the fifth boat held his spear horizontally above his head in token of surrender, and ten minutes later the chief of the rebels was on board
”Master,” he said calmly, as they led him to Sanders' presence, ”this is a bad palaver Hoill you deal with me?”
Sanders looked at him steadily
”I will be merciful with you,” he said, ”for as soon as we coht,” said the chief withoutmen very quickly so that they feel little pain”
”That is my practice,” said Sanders of the River, and the chief nodded his head approvingly
”I would rather it were so,” he said
It was to a sorrowful village that he came, for there were many women to wail their dead
Sanders landed with his Houssas and held a high palaver under the trees
”Bring me the old ht hi but bones to shape him
They carried him to the place of justice and set him down before the Commissioner
”You are an evil ue has liedyour chief upon a tree, and with him certain others If you stand before your people and say, 'Such a story, and such a story was a lie and no other thing,' you , bytihtened, and the fear of death, which is the ghost of some old men, was on him
”I spoke the truth,” he quavered at last ”I spoke of what I saw and of what I knew-only that” Sanders waited
”I saw the great king slay and burn; yesterday I saw hi, and I saw smoke”
He shook his head helplessly
”I saw these things How can I say I saw nothing?”
”Whatinterval of silence whilst the old man collected himself