Part 21 (1/2)
”Don't forget that I want you presently,” he ordered ”Be quick and get your own dinner”
”I'm in love with this ivory hunt!” Fred whispered to us across the table ”If she's sure our pockets are worth going through, I' to look for!”
”Are you sure the s?” asked Will
”Quite I leftwas emptied out of the pockets on to the berth”
”I think I'll make you a confession presently,” said I, with a look at Will that just then he did not understand
”Never confess before dessert and coffee!” advised Fred ”It spoils the appetite”
CHAPTER FIVE
THE SLAVE GANGS
Our fathers praised the old accustoe wall Within whose circling dark Monuht us we should prize and praise (Only of dearth and pestilence should be our fears;) And now behind us are the green, regretted days
The water in the desert is our tears
Then ye, who at the waters drink Of Freedom, oh with Pity think On us, who face the desert brink Your fathers entered willingly
Our fathersthat onlyand felt Was good to fight about--what aye had been, Old-fashi+oned foods that their forefathers s the old sky, The warround, The soft winds singing, only ask not why!
And now our weeping is the desert sound
Oh ye, who gorge the daily good, Unquestioned heirs of all ye would, Spare not too tily
Our fathers taught us that the village good was best
Later we learned the red, new tribal creed That our place was the sun--night owned the rest Unless their treasure profited our greed!
But noe gather nothing where our fathers sowed, For harvest grireedier than us with gun and goad, Yoked two by two the slave safari goes
Oh ye, who froe link, Be thoughtful when the cup ye drink Your fathers spilled so willingly
----------Monuuard procured his trays at last, delivered them at a run, returned in a hurry and sed his own meal at a side-table Then, with his mouth full, he reported for orders to the railway official, as still checking figures The roorow empty
Coutlass and his Greek friend and the Goanese sat al their pudding I had not noticed until then that the guard was a singularly little man He stood very few inches taller than the seated official I suppose that hitherto in soy had seemed to increase his inches
”Are there handcuffs in the caboose?”
”Yes, sir”
”Fetch them”