Part 45 (2/2)
”What does this delay mean?” snapped the lieutenant ”Put him down at once and lay the lashes on!”
The unfortunate Kazimoto was pounced on by two askaris and thrown face-doard on the floor One of thelish jacket
”Did you hear my protest?” shouted Fred ”Did you hear my notice of appeal?”
”I did,” said the lieutenant ”Appeals are heard at the coast You rant stay of execution Lay on the lashes!”
”I will hold you personally liable for this outrage,” Fred told him, ”if it costs me all my money and all the rest of my years! I defy you to continue!”
”You have yourself to blarinned ”But for your uninvited interruption the Nya!
Lay those lashes on harder and ruel like ahim The blows fell at randoreat here they did not actually cut the skin
He had buried his face in his forear down to encourage hiht seem to serve
”Stick it out, Kazi! We'll stand by! We won't leave you down here!
Reot friends on't desert you!”
Probably in his agony Kazimoto did not understand a word of it, but the lieutenant did,--and swiftly took steps to interfere
”Call the Europeans' cases next!” he shouted, and proeants stepped down from the platforh the for the blue papers, and called out our names That of Broas included, but Broas not in court and ere kept standing there until he had been fetched fro to sleep off the effects of his debauch, and being now deprived of that luxury arrived between two askaris in a volcanic tein with
”A diet o' beer an' sausage don't seeood manners, do it?”
The lieutenant scowled, but for the nore the pleasantry
”You people are charged,” he said, ”with entering Gerular road and without reporting at a custo to defraud the custo ar in possession of aa--with intentional homicide, in that you shot and killed certainat large without permits and with felonious intent; and last, and this is thespies within the uilty?”
We were dumb Even the crack of the heavy whips on poor Kazi already from my wound to the point of nausea, I actually reeled before this new deluge of trouble, and had to hold on to Fred and Will They each put an arm under mine It was Broho spoke and stole froht have been
”Decline to plead!” he shouted boisterously ”You're no judge, you're a pirate! You're not fit to try natives, let alone white race, that's what you are! All you're fit for is to lad he needn't know you!”
”Silence!” roared the lieutenant, banging on the table with his open palm--then with his fist--then with a mallet
”Silence yourself!” retorted Brown as soon as the haht to be asharace, an' you're the worst thing in it! You and your Kaiser can go to hell, and be damned to both of you!”
”One !”
snapped the lieutenant ”Take him away!”
Quite clearly that was not the first time that a white man had been imprisoned in Muanza There was no hesitation about the way in which an askari seized Brorists or a sergeant snapped the handcuffs
He was hustled out expostulating, kicked on the shi+ns by the sergeant when he faced about to argue, and shoved into a run by both sergeant and askari
”You others would better be careful what you say!” said the lieutenant
”I've a mind to share Brown's cell!” said Will, but the lieutenant affected not to hear that