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Now, as to this Matadi, who is he, and what is he?" "Sair," said Lobo, in great perturbation, "I see dat you know all about me, so I will be perfectly open and frank wid you. I do know Matadi. He is a very powerful chief, de head of a tribe numbering quite t'ree t'ousand warriors; and his chief town is far up de river four, five days' journey in a canoe.
He wore white socks with low shoes. When he tired of this amusement he would go to the mummies and moralize over them. Usually he submitted with silent dignity to all which he had to go through, but, at times, he was goaded into comment. "What deh hell," he demanded once. "Look at all dese little jugs! Hundred jugs in a row! Ten rows in a case an' 'bout a t'ousand cases!
He t'ink we come no more becos' he give five t'ousand dollars to us each. That was to do the t'ing, to fire the country. Now we want another ten t'ousan' to us each, to forget we do it for him hein?" Still there was no reply. Dupont went on, watching the other furtively, for he did not like this silence. But he would not resent it till he was sure there was good cause. "It comes to suit us.
Five minutes later-a five minutes in which people gathered at the door of the shop, and heads were thrust inside in ravished wonder the palpitating Romany lowered the fiddle from his chin, and stood for a minute looking into space, as though he saw a vision. He was roused by old Berry's voice. "Das a fiddle I wouldn't sell for a t'ousand dollars.
"What you call skirmge?" asked Nick, pointedly. "It skirmge to take t'ousand scalp, ha?" "Tell us what has happened, Tuscarora?" said the captain, motioning his friend to be silent. "Soon tell soon done. Yankee on hill; reg'lar in canoe. Hundred, t'ousand, fifty canoe full of red-coat. Great chief, dere! ten six two all go togeder.
But dis Bunker Hill, he's a big bag of vind all he does is to sit around and talk! A t'ousand times I haf told him repeatedly dat dere are millions of dollars in dat mine, and a t'ousand times he tells me I am crazy. For fifteen years I haf begged him for the privilege to go into pardners on dat mine.
"Shall I rubber around, an' find out where is dey kept, boss?" "Spike," said Jimmy, "ask me no more. All this is in direct contravention of our treaty respecting keeping your fingers off the spoons. You pain me. Desist." "Sorry, boss. But dey'll be willy-wonders, dem jools. A hundred t'ousand plunks. Dat's goin' some, ain't it? What's dat dis side?" "Twenty thousand pounds."
Dere's de kittles an' de pots an' de jars, an' ha, ha! dere's de man wid de de wart on 'is nose! Oh! das fust-rate. Massa's awrful fond ob skitchin'. He wouldn't sell you now for ten t'ousand dollars."
He help the chosen against the children of Hell. "What did Krool do? He tell Oom Paul how the thieves would to come in the night to sold him like sheep to a butcher, how the t'ousand wolves would swarm upon the sheepfold, and there would be no homes for the voortrekker and his vrouw, how the Outlander would sit on our stoeps and pick the peaches from our gardens.
Dat's why I speculated on dat five to one perhaps. I had a t'ousand iron dollars saved up. If I winned I was goin' to buy Delaney's café. Who'd a t'ought dat stiff would take a nap in de foist round say?" "It's a hard deal," commented Raidler, looking down at the diminutive form of McGuire crumpled against the truck. "But you go to a hotel and rest. There's the Menger and the Maverick, and "
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