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At the appointed date only a week more now the two would come back, as they had promised, to begin the long, tranquil life of art and happiness. There were to be great pictures! Kano chuckled and rubbed his lean hands together, as he sat in his lonely room. Then the thought faded, for a tenderer thought had come.
On arriving at Kano, on his return route, Lander formed a spirited and highly laudable design, which proved him to be possessed of a mind much superior to his station, and this was nothing less than an attempt to resolve the great question, respecting the termination of the Niger, which he hoped to effect by proceeding to Funda, and thence to Benin by water.
"Perhaps perhaps a night-bird," he stammered out. "A bird!" echoed Tatsu. "That sound was human. It is a woman, the Presence that has hung about me! Put down your arms, you cannot keep me back!" "Be still!" cried out old Kano in the voice of angry kings. "Nothing will happen, nothing, I say, if you act thus like the untamed creature that you were! Your fate is still in my hands, Kano Tatsu!"
Kano, returning later and finding the two together, marking as he did, at once, with the quick eye of love, how health already cast faint premonitions of a flush upon the boy's thin face, had much ado to keep from crying aloud his joy and gratitude. By strong effort only did he succeed in making his greeting calm.
A gray stone Buddha on his lotos pedestal, or the long graceful lines of a standing Jizo, only served to emphasize the uniformity. This was a place most dear to Kano, and had been made so to his child. He even loved the look of the tombs.
Lander was induced by false pretences to bring the baggage from Kano to Sockatoo, when forcible possession was taken of the muskets. Clapperton loudly exclaimed against these proceedings, declaring them to amount to the basest robbery, to a breach of all faith, and to be the worst actions, of which any man could be guilty.
Only you must be patient and very quiet, that she may manifest herself." "I shall be quiet, Kano Indara." Kano, shivering now with excitement and relief, clapped hands loudly and called on Mata's name. The old dame entered, skirting warily the vicinity of the "madman." "Mata, fix your eyes on me only while I am speaking," began her master.
Consult her now," said Kano. The old dame threw aside the shoji like an armor, and walked in. "Yes, ask me what I think! Ask the old servant who has nursed Miss Umè from her birth, managed the house, scrubbed, haggled, washed, and broken her old bones for you! This is my advice, freely given, make of the youth her jinrikisha man, but not her husband!" "Impertinent old witch!" cried Kano.
"This is to be no disappointment," said he, gently. "I pray you, listen patiently to my clumsy speech." "I will strive to listen calmly," said Kano, in a broken voice. "But first honorably secrete the papers once again. They tantalize my sight." Uchida put them down on the floor beside him and threw the cloth carelessly above. He was more moved than he cared to show.
Tatsu knew well what the old man meant. He lifted his eyes and stared out, mute, into the narrowing band of light. The old man drew his thin form very straight, moved a few feet that he might look squarely into the other's face, and said deliberately. "So did I mourn the young wife whom I loved, and so, if I know men, will you mourn, Kano Tatsu.
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