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"During the afternoon the headman returned, and I lost no time before interviewing him. I told him how firmly convinced I was that Baji Lal and Devaka were innocent, and that I would prove it if he gave me the chance to do so.
Then sudden comes the white folk, an' after a bit they was all herded on to a Reserve an' kep' there. But that White Squaw never left her home in the forest, 'cause no one but the headman knew where she was. She was on'y a young girl then; I guess she's grown now. Wal, fer years them pore critturs reckoned on her comin' along an' leadin' them out on the war-path.
And say to the headman to send up food, fruit, milk, and the flesh of a kid." These orders were promptly obeyed, and the three were soon busy at a good meal, that put life and strength into them, so that when they feasted their eyes upon the wonderful beauty of-the garden-valley, the horrors of the underground world swiftly faded into the background, phantoms of reality.
As for herself and her old husband, she went on, they had hidden in a hollow tree, and this they had never dared leave until after Sulayman killed the voracious bird, Pah. At Indarapatra's earnest request, the old woman led him to the cave where he found the headman with his family and some of his people.
I remember talking to a man not long ago a man who had been a headman in the king's time, but was not so now. We were chatting of various subjects, and he told me he had no children; they were dead. 'When were you married? I asked, just for something to say, and he said when he was thirty-two. 'Isn't that rather old to be just married? I asked.
He was aware, he added modestly, that he was a diligent headman, always active in good deeds, and a terror to dacoits and other evil-doers; but as to these particular robbers and this fighting he was a little puzzled. I was considerably surprised, naturally, and I took from the table the Burmese letter describing the affair.
The King, his headman, and his son, all drank first, in order to prove that the liquor was not poisonous; a ceremony which makes one strongly sensible of being among people, who have no very conscientious regard for human life. The mug was then refilled, and passed to us. On the walls of the house there were fresco-paintings, evidently by a native artist, rudely representing persons and birds.
At the next table sat another of David's friends an interpreter and a lad from the bride's house, headman on the road Department; David's next-door neighbours, a man and his wife; and eight headmen over the road labourers. Outside were the school children, who were fed by Jean with Calabar chop, sweets, and biscuits.
"What did you bring this thing for?" asked Berselius, pointing to Adams's elephant gun, which the Zappo Zap headman was just stripping from its covering. "To shoot with," said Adams, laughing. Berselius looked at the big man handling the big gun, and gave a short laugh. "Well, bring it," said he; "but I don't envy your gun-bearers." But Félix, the headman, did not seem of the same opinion.
The headman was surprised when they told him that the Fenmen had agreed to allow them a shelter in the swamps, and he and eight or ten men who had straggled in since Beric's party arrived, expressed their desire to accompany the party with their families.
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