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Updated: June 2, 2025
Deighton, if you wish to save your wife's and your own life, and escape from this slaughterhouse, now is your time. As God is my judge I believe we shall never be safe again, and I would gladly go with you if I could. But my daughter Nelly is at Lak-a-lak, and well, that settles it. Banderah here will tell you that he dreads your staying, as the priests may plot your death at any moment.
Early on the following morning Messrs. de Vere and Morcombe-Lycett the latter being now quite recovered informed Mr. and Mrs. Deighton that, having heard from the two traders there was good shooting at the big swamp, they were going there under the guidance of Banderah and a party of natives; and shortly after breakfast the chief, accompanied by a number of his people, appeared.
The savage, bitter hatred that rang through the old man's voice, and the deep, approving murmur of those who stood about him, warned both Banderah and Blount that the lust for slaughter was not yet appeased; so it was with a feeling of intense surprise and relief that he and the missionary saw them suddenly withdraw, and move rapidly away to the rear of the house among the thick jungle.
"Give him £500 and tell him to hold his tongue. He's a thundering rascal, and we must pay to shut his mouth." Then the two proceeded to discuss their lunch, and as they ate and drank and talked and laughed, Banderah and three or four of his men whispered together. "Seize them from behind and bind them tightly," said the chief, "but kill them not, for that I have promised to Challi."
"Look," said the ex-blackbirder, laying a finger on the chiefs arm and speaking in a low voice, "these two white men on board the yacht have got any amount of money, gold, sovereigns boxes and boxes of it They stole it; I know they stole it, although I didn't see them do it." Banderah nodded his huge, frizzy head. "I savee. These two fellow rogue, all same you an' me."
* Maafu of Tonga, the once dreaded rival of King Cacobau of Fiji. He died in 1877. "You speak me true?" inquired the chief. "I swear it," answered the captain promptly, extending his hand, which, however, Banderah did not appear to see.
Then, rifle in hand, and with quiet, unmoved face, Banderah opened the trader's door and came out before them all. "Who among ye desires the life of Banderah and those to whom he has given his tapu?" he said. The smaller of the two priests dashed aside his mask, and revealed the face of the old man Toka, who had struck Baxter his death-blow. "Who indeed, O chief?
"Don't bother about them, they are all on board," was all Blount said. And there was no time to talk, for now fierce cries were heard in the direction of the mission house, and Blount and Banderah, looking back, saw black, naked figures leap over the low stone wall enclosing the missionary's dwelling and disappear inside. "Just in time," muttered the trader, as dragging Mr.
Deighton between them they gained the house, and sat the missionary down beside his wife, who with a cry of thankfulness threw her arms about his neck and then quietly fainted. For nearly half an hour Blount, with Banderah and the missionary by his side, looked out through the windows and saw the natives plundering and wrecking the mission house and the dwellings of Schwartzkoff and Burrowes.
Perhaps by and by those two fellow get mad with me some day, and tell man-o'-war I bin kill three white man and one white woman." "Banderah," and Bilker slapped him on the shoulder, "you're a damned smart fellow! There's no mistake about that. Now look here, I want you to get another thousand sovereigns the thousand I am going to give to Burrowes and Peter.
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