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My mind went back indeed to the prophecy of the witch-doctor Goroko, of which it was possible that he might be thinking, but as while he spoke he kept his fierce eyes fixed upon the fat and pompous quarter-breed, Thomaso, I concluded that here was the object of his doubts. It might have occurred to him that this Thomaso would take the opportunity of her father's absence to annoy Inez.
The doctor, Goroko, smelt out Thomaso as the man who had made them sick, and though they will not kill him because we are guests here, those Zulus are very angry with Thomaso and I think will beat him if they get a chance. But that is only the small half of the stick," and he paused. "What is the big half, then?" I asked with irritation. "Baas, the Spirit in Goroko "
The châtelain waited; a moment for the little stir occasioned by the entrance of the prisoner to subside, when he pursued the inquiry. "Thou art a Genoese of the name of Thomaso Santi?" he asked, consulting his notes. "By this name, Signore, am I generally known." "Thou art a mariner, and it is said one of courage and skill. Why hast thou given thyself the ungracious appellation of Il Maledetto?"
As our hero and Gascoigne were not Italians, they thought that bribery would be the more English-like way of doing the thing; so they composed a letter, to be delivered by Mesty to the friar, in which Jack offered to Father Thomaso the moderate sum of one thousand dollars, provided he would allow the marriage to proceed, and not frighten the old lady with ecclesiastical squibs and crackers.
On the fourth evening after the removal of our two midshipmen to the palazzo of Don Rebiera, as they were sitting in company with Agnes and Don Philip in their own room, a friar made his appearance at the door. They all started, for by his height they imagined him to be the Friar Thomaso, but no one addressed him.
Here the quarter-blood called Thomaso, and some assistants were engaged in trading with natives from the Zambesi swamps, men of a kind that I had never seen, but in a way more civilised than many further south.
"Bring a light, Thomaso," the guard shouted to his comrade outside. "It is getting dark in here." The other brought a torch, and they carefully examined the floor of the cell. "What is it that you are searching for?" Francis asked. "I have dropped my dagger somewhere," the man replied. "I can't think how it fell out." "When did you see it last?" "Not since dinner time. I know I had it then.
Also I told the farm natives to dig a big grave and in it to place the other bodies and generally to remove the traces of murder. Then I went on to the house, and not too soon. Seeing the waggons arrive and having made sure that the Amahagger were gone, Thomaso and the other cowards emerged from their hiding-places and returned.
Do you understand, fat pig, deserter of women and children, who to save yourself could run faster than a buck?" Thomaso replied that he understood very clearly indeed, and that, Heaven helping him, all should be kept safe and sound.
After many pros and cons, it was as last decided that the money should be given to Mesty; but that Mesty should state, when he took the money to the friar, that he had administered the powder, and claim it when he presented it. The next day the order for the money was given to Mesty, and he went to the Friar Thomaso with it.
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