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A form was dimly seen, but it was only by the sound of the voice that they knew it to be Ravonino. Few words were uttered. Every instant was precious. "Farewell, dear friend," said Ravonino, grasping Mark's hand, "God grant that we may meet again in better times! Laihova waits for me beyond the garden "
Laihova, it may be mentioned in passing, failed to join them, certainly not from want of will, but because the place where he had concealed himself was discovered while he lay awaiting the signal to join his friends. Two female relations who knew of his hiding-place were caught, convicted, if we may so put it, of Christianity! and put to the torture.
"I have purposely contrived," said the guide, "that, by walking all night, you shall arrive early to-morrow Friday because it is market-day in the town, and you will be less noticed, as well as more amused by what you see, than if you were to arrive on any other day. Go, and God go with you! I shall be found in the cave that Laihova knows of. Farewell."
Did not Greatheart fight Apollyon with a sword?" "True, but these were spiritual weapons," said Laihova. "Moreover, if you did rouse your people and march to the capital, what could you do? Your whole tribe would appear but as a handful of dust in the eyes of the Hova army."
"Oh! no, no! do not go yet," exclaimed Ra-Ruth in an agony of grief, as she clung to her friend. "The good Lord cannot mean this oh! take me! take me! and let her stay!" The sentence ended in a low wail, for at the moment two soldiers forced the girls asunder, and Ra-Ruth sank upon the floor, while Ramatoa was led away. Poor Laihova had watched every movement of Ra-Ruth.
And the longer he meditated the more anxiously did he long to be back in the cave beside his Reni his humble-minded loving little mother and beside yes, he made no attempt to conceal it from himself beside the beautiful queen-like sister of Laihova. The more he meditated, however, the more hopeless did his case seem to become. To lie he would not not even to gain Ramatoa.
Laihova at this point became leader of the party, in order to enable the guide more easily to fall into the background; and he was all the more fitted for the position in that he had acquired a smattering of English from his friend Ravonino, and could both understand much of what was said to him and also make himself pretty well understood by his white friends.
"If the Lord wills it so," remarked Laihova, quietly. "How do you know that the Lord wills it so?" demanded a voice fiercely, and a man who had hitherto sat still with his face buried in his hands looked up. It was the stout chief Voalavo, all whose fun of disposition seemed to have been turned to fury. "You all speak as if you were already dead men! Are we not alive?
"What says Laihova?" asked Mark Breezy at this point, for the conversation having been conducted in the native tongue they as yet understood nothing. The guide briefly explained, and then turned to the young man. "But how can you think of leaving your friends in the cave, Laihova? They may require your strong arm; and my sister is "
So said Laihova on entering the cave and seating himself, weary, worn, and dispirited, on a ledge of rock beside his friend, to whom he related all that had befallen. "Give not way to despondency," said Ravonino, though he could not smooth the lines of anxiety from his own brow. "Does not the Lord reign? Let the earth rejoice!
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