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A Sandi in strange black clothing with a big white-breasted shirt ... but Sandi, hard-eyed and threatening. "Lord, lord!" he stammered, and put up his hands to his eyes. He looked again the figure had vanished. "Magic!" he mumbled, and lurched forward in terror and hate to finish his work. Then through the crowd stalked a tall man.
I am your man, Master," said he in a fret, "yet never have I travelled with so great a fear: even our Lord Sandi does not move by night, though the river is his own child." "It is written," said Bones, cheerfully, and as the sergeant saluted and turned away, the reckless Houssa made a face at the darkness.
"Oh, Sandi!" called the headman of the boat, as she went lumbering over the clear green swell, "remember us, your servants!" "I will remember, man," said Sanders, a-choke, and turned quickly to his cabin.
"Lord, it is so," said Ahmet; "for, as your lordship knows, Sandi was very terrible, and then, O Tibbetti, he is an older man, very wise in the ways of these people, and very cunning to see their heart. All great trees grow slowly, O my lord! and that which springs up in a night dies in a day." Bones pondered this for a while, then: "Wake me at dawn," he said.
Was it a woman who slew B'chumbiri? so that she is not present at this palaver. Lo, then I go to hold council with women!" M'gobo's face was all distorted like a man stricken with paralysis. "Tibbetti!" he said, "I slew B'chumbiri according to custom and I will answer to Sandi, who is a man, and understands such palavers."
Even Sandi, who has wisdom greater than ju-ju, he says that there is no N'bosini, but that it is the foolish talk of men who cannot see whence come their troubles and must find a land and a people and a king out of their mad heads.
"Lord, they say that Sandi has gone and there is no law." Hamilton of the Houssas grinned. "Oh, ain't there?" said he, in English, vilely. "Ain't there?" repeated an indignant Bones, "we'll jolly well show old Thinggumy what's what."
Now your honour shall tell me by whose favour these things come about." Sir Robert chuckled. "Bosambo," he said solemnly, "they gave these things to me because I am an old man. Now when your lord Sandi becomes old these honours also will he receive." He saw Bosambo's face fall and went on: "Also much may happen that will bring Sandi to their lordships' eyes, they who sit above us.
"Light of my heart," said he, "our lord Sandi is my father and my mother, a giver of riches, and a plentiful provider of pence. Now it seems to me, that though he is a just man and great, having neither fear of his enemies nor soft words for his friends, yet the lords of his land who live so very far away do him no honour."
If Sandi is so great and so wise, and is so loved by the greater King, how comes it that he stays for ever in one place, having no beautiful stars about his neck nor wonderful ribbons around his stomach such as the great Frenchiman and the great Allamandi men, and even the Portuguesi men wear who are honoured by their kings?"
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