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Then he turned his attention to the three house-boys, cornering Ornfiri in the kitchen and rushing him against the hot stove, stripping the lava-lava from Lalaperu when that excited youth climbed a veranda-post, and following Viaburi on top the billiard-table, where the battle raged until Joan managed a rescue. It was Satan's inexhaustible energy and good spirits that most impressed them.
He is not a nice man, and, I repeat, it is impossible." "There is Guvutu," she suggested. He shook his head. "There's nothing there but fever and five white men who are drinking themselves to death. I couldn't permit it." "Oh thank you," she said quietly. "I guess I'll start to-day. Viaburi! You go along Noa Noah, speak 'm come along me."
"What name, you?" he demanded. "Sangui?" "Me Mahua," was the answer. "All right, you fella Mahua. You finish cook along boys. You stop along white Mary. All the time you stop along. You savvee?" "Me savvee," she grunted, and obeyed his gesture to go to the grass house immediately. "What name?" he asked Viaburi, who had just come out of the grass house. "Big fella sick," was the answer.
"You only missed it twice, and it was a strange weapon." "But I can't make out the two misses," she complained. "The gun worked beautifully, too. Give me another clip and I'll hit it eight times for anything you wish." "I don't doubt it. Now I'll have to get a new block. Viaburi! Here you fella, catch one fella block along storeroom."
The seventh man was still at large, and was said to be working along the coast on the lookout to steal a canoe and get away to his own island. Viaburi brought two lighted lanterns to the white man for inspection. He glanced at them and saw that they were burning brightly with clear, broad flames, and nodded his head.
Viaburi, the house-boy, brought him corrosive sublimate and water, and he took a thorough antiseptic wash. He dosed himself with chlorodyne, took his own pulse, smoked a thermometer, and lay back on the couch with a suppressed groan. It was mid-afternoon, and he had completed his third round that day. He called the house-boy. "Take um big fella look along Jessie," he commanded.
Viaburi turned yellow when told that he was to accompany the expedition, and, to everybody's surprise, Lalaperu volunteered to take his place. Seelee arrived, proud in his importance that the great master of Berande should summon him in the night-time for council, and firm in his refusal to step one inch within the dread domain of the bushmen.
And in the one breath he was glad that the partnership had been effected and sorry that Joan Lackland had ever come to the Solomons. Then he went inside and looked at himself in a hand-mirror. He studied the reflection long and thoughtfully and wonderingly. They were deep in a game of billiards the next morning, after the eleven o'clock breakfast, when Viaburi entered and announced,
After coffee, she left them; and at midnight, from across the compound, she could hear the low murmur of their voices and see glowing the fiery ends of their cigars. Up early herself, she found they had already departed on another tramp over the plantation. "What you think?" she asked Viaburi. "Sheldon marster he go along finish short time little bit," was the answer.
"Viaburi, you fetch 'm one fella Noa Noah along me," she commanded. The black boy started to obey. "Viaburi! You no stop I break 'm head belong you. And now, Miss Lackland, I insist you must explain. What have I said or done to merit this?" "You have presumed, you have dared " She choked and swallowed, and could not go on. Sheldon looked the picture of despair.
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