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Updated: May 14, 2025
"It was so late in the day that Davidson actually hesitated whether he should not pass by this time. He had no regard for Bamtz, who was a degraded but not a really unhappy man. His pity for Laughing Anne was no more than her case deserved. But his goodness was of a particularly delicate sort.
What can you do when you are with a man like the fellow I am with now. Bamtz is terrified of them, and they know it. He's in it from funk. Oh, Davy! take your ship away quick! "'Too late, said Davidson. 'She's on the mud already. "If the kid hadn't been in this state I would have run off with him to you into the woods anywhere. Oh, Davy! will he die? she cried aloud suddenly.
"Davidson met three men in the doorway. They made way for him without actually daring to face his glance. But Bamtz was the only one who looked down with an air of guilt. The big Frenchman had remained lolling in his chair; he kept his stumps in his pockets and addressed Davidson. "'Isn't it unfortunate about that child! The distress of that woman there upsets me, but I am of no use in the world.
And the Frenchman had come to believe that she was a woman who didn't care what she did. That's how it came about they got to talk before her openly. For a long time she could not make out what game they were up to. The new arrivals, not expecting to find a woman with Bamtz, had been very startled and annoyed at first, she explained.
I've heard of the Rajah of Dongala giving him fifty dollars' worth of trade goods and paying his passage in a prau only to get rid of him. Fact. And observe that nothing prevented the old fellow having Bamtz's throat cut and the carcase thrown into deep water outside the reefs; for who on earth would have inquired after Bamtz?
And if the invalid shouldn't be so well, she will be sure to send one of us down to call you, so that you may play the doctor again. So don't shoot at sight. "'He isn't a shooting man, struck in Niclaus. "'I never shoot before making sure there's a reason for it at any rate, said Davidson. "Bamtz let out a sickly snigger. The Frenchman alone got up to make a bow to Davidson's careless nod.
"She busied herself in attending to the boy; and nobody looking into that room would have seen anything suspicious in those two people exchanging murmurs by the sick-bedside. "'But now they think I am a better man than Bamtz ever was, she said with a faint laugh. "The child moaned. She went down on her knees, and, bending low, contemplated him mournfully.
"All the four were sitting again round the table. Bamtz not having the pluck to open his mouth, it was Niclaus who, as a collective voice, called out to him thickly to come out soon and join in a drink. "'I think I'll have to stay some little time in there, to help her look after the boy, Davidson answered without stopping. "This was a good thing to say to allay a possible suspicion.
One thing, however, must be said of Bamtz; he had always kept clear of native women. As one can't suspect him of moral delicacy, I surmise that it must have been from prudence. And he, too, was no longer young. There were many white hairs in his valuable black beard by then. He may have simply longed for some kind of companionship in his queer, degraded existence.
"That was the situation when she and Bamtz got acquainted casually. She could not have had any illusions about that fellow. To pick up with Bamtz was coming down pretty low in the world, even from a material point of view. She had always been decent, in her way; whereas Bamtz was, not to mince words, an abject sort of creature.
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