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Or if it be "Banquo" he reads into it, "Hold your position till further orders." And "Banquo" was the word that the Administrator telegraphed. Sergeant Abiboo had sat by the flowing N'glili river without noticing any slackening of its strength or challenging of its depth. There was reason for this.

They walked across to the little party. "Where is Sergeant Abiboo?" asked Hamilton suddenly. "In gaol, sir," said Bones, promptly, "sentenced to death scratchin' his leg on parade after bein' warned repeatedly by me to give up the disgusting habit." "Where is Corporal Ahmet, Bones?" asked the frantic Hamilton. "In gaol, sir," said Bones.

The Zaire itself, in charge of Abiboo, came steaming up carrying a letter filled with unnecessary abuse, for Hamilton was getting rattled by the extraordinary manifestations which he received every day of the potency of this slain monster. Bones sent the sergeant back in the launch with an insubordinate message, and commandeered the Zaire with her superior accommodation for himself.

Especially he apportioned Abiboo, his own sergeant, the task of watching the little river which flowed swiftly between its orderly banks past the sunken camp. For two days Abiboo watched and found nothing to report. Not so the spies who were keeping watch upon the moving remnants of Bizaro's army. They came with the news that the main body had mysteriously disappeared.

At Ikan he tied up the Zaire for the night, and whilst his men were carrying the wood aboard, he settled himself to put down the gist of his discoveries. In the midst of his labours came Abiboo. "Lord," said he, "there has just come by a fast canoe the woman who spoke with you last night." "Jumping Moses!" said Bones, turning pale, "say to this woman that I am gone "