Part 41 (1/2)

As for the re round and un corporal slipped in another belt of cartridges, and ood practice up to nine hundred yards, from which two canoes, frantically paddled, were coraph over to full speed ahead and followed

On the shore the Lulungo made a stand, and missiles of many kinds struck the little steae noisily, and soon there ca, and shouted through his er reat shame,” said the man He stood in a wet place on the deck, and little rills of water dripped froht Sandi the lion, Sandi the buffalo, before the stahty feet--”

Sanders cut him short

”There is a white irl in your city,” he said ”Bring them to the shi+p, and then I will sit in the palaver-house, and talk this matter over”

The man shuffled uneasily

”Master,” he said, ”the white irl, I know nothing”

Sanders looked at hi me the white man, alive or dead,” he said softly; ”also the white woht the unfortunatetaken some time to make him look presentable The wife of theher, because she was irl?” asked Sanders He spoke very little above a whisper

The irl?” said Sanders, and lashed him across the face with his thin stick

”Master,” muttered the man, with his head on his chest, ”the chief has her”

Sanders took a turn up and down the deck, then he went to his cabin and cao and see this chief,” he said ”Abiboo, do you run the boat's nose into the soft sand of the bank, covering the street with the Maxio ashore”

He landed without opposition; neither gun banged nor spear flew as he walked swiftly up the broad street The girl lay before the chiefs hut quite dead, very cal life had been more merciful than Sanders dared hope He lifted the child in his arht noise behind him, but three rifles crashed from the shi+p, and he heard a thud and a whiht the body on board, and laid it reverently on the little after-deck Then they told him that the wo it was better so

The Zaire backed out intothe city wistfully He wanted the chief of the Lulungo badly; he wanted, in his cold rage, to stake hile fashi+on, and kill him with slow fires But the chief and his people were in the woods, and there were the French territories to fly to

In the evening he buried the missionary and his fae in his soul, and a sense of his iht a nation with twenty Houssa police” at dusk, and tied up for the night In thehe resumed his journey, and at noon he ca, into the thick of a war fleet