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On every side the fighting-men of Bekwando went down like ninepins about half a dozen only sprang forward for a hand-to-hand fight, the remainder, with shrieks of despair, fled back to the shelter of the forest, and not one of them again ever showed a bold front to the white man.
Trent was seized upon by an Englishman who was representing the Bekwando Land and Mining Investment Company and, before he could regain Da Souza, a few rapid sentences had passed between the latter and his brother in Portuguese. Oom Sam advanced to Trent hat in hand "Welcome back to Attra, senor?" Trent nodded curtly. "Place isn't much changed," he remarked.
No one seemed to know much about the Bekwando Land Company, and the country that way was very rough. However, we got sent out at last, and Cathcart, he simply scoffed at the whole thing from the first. There was no proper labour, not half enough machinery, and none of the right sort and the gradients and country between Bekwando and the sea were awful.
It was for her sake he had spoken. He saw now that he had made a mistake. "I am very sorry, sir," he said humbly. "Of course I know that these men have paid an immense sum for their shares in the Bekwando Syndicate. At the same time it is not my business, and I am sorry that I spoke." "It is not your business at any time to remember what I receive for properties," Scarlett Trent said roughly.
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