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Updated: June 5, 2025
Tell him that if he makes any noise, he dies." Jeekie obeyed, and the Mungana's darkening eyes grew bright again as he drew his breath in great sobs. "Now, friend," said Alan in Asiki, "why did you wish to stab me?" "Because I hate you," answered the man, "who to-morrow will take my place and the wife I love." "As a year or two ago you took someone else's place, eh?
"Jeekie, Jeekie," said Alan, "exercise a Christian spirit and let bygones be bygones. If you don't, you will make a quarrel between us and the Ogula, and they will give us up to the Asiki. Perhaps the man did not eat your mother; I understand that he denies it, and when you remember what she was like, it seems incredible.
Still they might have been interested in the nocturnal conversation of those two owls, which, as is common with such magical fowl in West Africa, had transformed themselves into human shapes, the shape of Jeekie and the shape of an Asiki priest, who was, as it happened, a blood relation of Jeekie.
Also only a few of them here, rest of army come later and try rush us to-morrow morning before dawn. That Asiki custom." "Then what shall we do, Jeekie? Run for it or stop here?" "Think must stop here, Major. If we bolt, carrying Miss Barbara, who can't walk much, they follow on spoor and catch us. Best stick inside this fence and see what happen.
"I never saw you before, and you never saw me, Lady, yet you talk as though we had been friends," broke in Alan in his halting Asiki. "So we were in the spirit, Vernoon. It was she who went before me who loved that white man whose face was as your face is, but her ghost lives on in me and tells me the tale.
Then he proceeded to remove his coat, his waistcoat, his socks, and his boots and to replace these articles of European attire by his own worn Asiki sandals and his own dirty Asiki robe. "There," he said, "think that do," and he studied him by the light of the candle.
Then accompanied by the creeping Jeekie and the train of prostrate priests, he marched up the long hall to the edge of the dais and there stood still and bowed to the woman in the chair. "Greeting, white man," she said in a low voice when she had studied him for a while. "Do you understand my tongue?" "A little," he answered in Asiki, "moreover, my servant here knows it well and can translate."
Little Bonsa do all those things for you, and by and by do plenty more, as Little Bonsa bring my old master, your holy uncle, safe out of that country because all the Asiki run away when they see him wear her on head, for they think she come sacrifice them after she eat up my life."
Now Aylward was laid upon a litter that had been prepared, and eight white-robed Asiki bearers stared at his gold mask in the faint starlight. "I suppose he is not dead, brother," said Owl No. 2 doubtfully. "Nay, brother," said Owl No. 1, "feel his heart and his pulse. Not dead, only drunk. He will wake up by daylight, by which time you should be far upon your way.
Also old custom when any one in country round find big nugget, or pretty stone, like ladies wear on bosom, to bring it as offering to Bonsa, so that there now great plenty of all this stuff. But no one use it for anything except to set on walls of house of Asiki, or to make basin, stool, table and pot to cook with.
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