Part 25 (1/2)
”I have eyes, chief”
”And you?”
”I saw hier?”
”Of course”
Muata laughed ”White s, but not all Haw! Who are those to be eaten up?” He touched his naked breast, and then pointed at each in turn
”They would attack us,” roared Mr Huer ho ca story”
”One black chap is like another,” muttered Compton
”Who was he?” asked Mr Hume
”The servant of the white chiefs who bound”My Jenkins!”
”Why didn't you knock the beggar overboard?” said Conized hi was afraid; but at the last he went away, thinking he led Muata by a rope, as he would lead a goat Had Hassan, the wolf, tried to blind Muata so, then----” The chief touched the hilt of his knife
”Let us hear the story”
Muata repeated the whole conversation withthe tones, the nervousness, and the sly glances of the Zanzibar spy, for nothing had escaped his keen glance
”And those men whose presence he suddenly reht, will be Hassan's slave-robbers, too?”
”Ow aye,” said Muata, with a ferocious glea for us?”
”On both sides of the river they have been waiting;” and the chief looked out over the brown flood towards the north bank
”It ell you talked to the uised, even to me, who a,” said the chief, quietly ”If he were not wise, he would not be dreaded by the Wolf”
”I never recognized the beggar,” said Venning, ”and even now I cannot recall a feature that was like the Zanzibar! How did you discover hi in his ears, there were no -leaf over his skin, and there was a lie on his tongue, and in his eyes Ho!--white ht” The chief picked up a Ghoorka knife ”This is my weapon”
”We are notabout till evening, so that they may think we have no suspicions, and then in the dusk ill push on”
”Wow!” said the chief ”My plan would be to land above, to creep down and take them unprepared”