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This native tobacco had little in common with the fine qualities of our present manufacturers; but Torres was not more difficult to please in this matter than in others, and so, having filled his pipe, he struck a match and applied the flame to a piece of that stick substance which is the secretion of certain of the hymenoptera, and is known as "ants' amadou."
According to the legend, Mary Magdalen was elevated by the hands of angels to this point seven times a day, there to say her prayers, which proceeding surely entitles her to a place as the patroness of aviation. At Souge, on the Loir, a little below the troglodyte town of Troo already described, half-way up the cliff is the cave-chapel of S. Amadou. It is 45 feet deep and 15 feet wide.
Meanwhile, when their immediate necessities allowed them leisure, Godfrey, incited by Tartlet, returned to that important and vexed question of the fire. He tried at first to replace amadou, which he so unfortunately lacked, by another and analogous material.
The tin tricolor flag swings at the top of the church-steeple; the two chintz streamers still flutter in the wind from the linen-draper's; the chemist's fetuses, like lumps of white amadou, rot more and more in their turbid alcohol, and above the big door of the inn the old golden lion, faded by rain, still shows passers-by its poodle mane.
The tin tricolour flag still swings at the top of the church-steeple; the two chintz streamers still flutter in the wind from the linen-draper's; the chemist's fetuses, like lumps of white amadou, rot more and more in their turbid alcohol, and above the big door of the inn the old golden lion, faded by rain, still shows passers-by its poodle mane.
With the amadou he lighted up, and after about a dozen whiffs his eyes closed, his pipe escaped from his fingers, and he fell asleep. One thousand reis are equal to three francs, and a conto of reis is worth three thousand francs.
"You will have to know," and motioned them all into the dining-room and shut the door. "This " jerking out the telegram "was waiting for me," and he handed it to Graeme, who smoothed it out and read, while Pixley dropped into a chair. "Pixley. Bel-Air. Sark. "Zizel, Amadou, Zebu, Zeta. Eno." "Code," said Pixley briefly. "Meanings underneath," and dropped his head into his hands.
Then there was a row of phials containing dextrine, alcoholic ether, liquid acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which afforded me no comfort. Finally, all the articles needful to supply Ruhmkorff's apparatus. My uncle did not forget- a supply of tobacco, coarse grained powder, and amadou, nor a leathern belt in which he carried a sufficient quantity of gold, silver, and paper money.
In the corner behind the door, shining hobnailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gun-flints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou.
"Zizel," read Graeme slowly "There is bad news. Amadou your father. Zebu has bolted. Zeta we fear the smash will be a bad one. Eno ?" "My partner's initials they certify the wire," said Pixley hoarsely. And they looked soberly at one another and very pitifully at the broken man before them. "Don't take it too hard, Pixley," said Graeme quietly, laying a friendly hand on the other's shoulder.
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