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"Hands up, or you're dead men!" Springing to his feet Durham faced towards the door. Standing in it were two figures, one the yellow-bearded man he had seen at Waroona Downs, the other a man of slighter build whose face was entirely concealed by a handkerchief hanging from under his hat and gathered in at the throat, with two holes burned for the eyes.
It is a curious story of a headstrong boy and a proud and relentless family: the details do not matter here, but they are sufficient to weave a web of romance around the tall yellow-bearded man with the sad eyes and the voice that gives itself perfectly to plaintive little Swedish songs remembered out of childhood.
In front of the altar stands a ministerial figure, none other than Manetho, who must have taken orders, and joins together, in holy matrimony, the yellow-bearded Thor and the dark-haired Helen.
As M. Pougeot mounted to the first floor he was met at the head of the stairs by a little yellow-bearded man, with luminous dark eyes, who came toward him, hand extended. "Ah, Dr. Joubert!" said the commissary. The doctor nodded nervously. "It's a singular case," he whispered, "a very singular case." At the same moment a door opened and Gibelin appeared.
Fast, fast towards them thundered a great roan horse, blood dripping from his chest, and jaws, and flank, and on its back a yellow-bearded man, in whose shoulder stood a spear, and who held in front of him a fainting woman. "Soon he will fall suddenly, and we shall be crushed," thought Ralph, and had the horse died while travelling at that speed it must have been so. But he did not.
"We'd like to hear," said Jack, who had felt all along that there was some mystery about the yellow-bearded giant. "All right! Sit down and I'll tell yer ther yarn. But say, who is yer friend? No offense meant, ye understand." "This is Professor Jerushah Jenks," said Jack. "What, the guy that knows all about rocks and such like?" burst out the miner.
It's all down on a map what Blue Nose Sanchez give me afore he passed in his checks." "Do you fully realize what you are telling me?" asked the professor. The doctor and the nurse had left the room, and the miner, the scientist and the boys were alone. "Course I do," was the rejoinder of the yellow-bearded giant with the bandaged head.
He was prepared for anything, from a frightened calf or fawn to a belligerent lion, but he was not prepared for what he saw. In that instant his tiny searchlight, sharp and white, had shown him what a thousand years would not enable him to forget a man, huge and blond, yellow-haired and yellow-bearded, naked except for soft-tanned moccasins and what seemed a goat-skin about his middle.
Korak stepped into the Swede's tent to assure himself that Meriem was not hid there. As he disappeared from view Tantor, his eyes still fixed upon Malbihn, took a step nearer the man. An elephant's eyesight is none too good; but the great tusker evidently had harbored suspicions of this yellow-bearded white man from the first.
A handful of black followers greeted his return with sullen indifference. He was a great bearded man, a huge, yellow-bearded giant, when he entered his tent. Half an hour later he emerged smooth shaven. His blacks looked at him in astonishment. "Would you know me?" he asked. "The hyena that bore you would not know you, Bwana," replied one.
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